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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Lotto · draw
ResultLotto
Jackpot$11,250,000
The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules6/52 + 1/25 · Oct 2012 – Jan 2015draw 190 of 339 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/52 + 1/25 · Oct 2012 – Jan 2015 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 189 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 January 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 54% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 189 draws, and they scatter around it. Warm means more than expected, cool means fewer — and a cold number arriving is exactly what cold numbers do.
Frequency Explorer →Shares 3 of 6 numbers (29, 44, 47) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 January 2014 — its closest relative in 189 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 January 2014): 34, 44 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 174 — the 66th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →3 had not appeared for 29 draws. A number waits about 9 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 61% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈889k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 12,516 winners, 6% fewer than the 13k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | $11,250,000 |
| Match 5 plus Extra Shot | 0 | $0.00 |
| Match 5 | 12 | $1,970 |
| Match 4 plus Extra Shot | 5 | $1,238 |
| Match 4 | 665 | $49.50 |
| Match 3 plus Extra Shot | 47 | $125 |
| Match 3 | 12,516 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 plus Extra Shot | 332 | $25.00 |
| Match 2 | 102,611 | $1.00 |
| Match 1 plus Extra Shot | 1,212 | $10.00 |
| Match 0 plus Extra Shot | 1,382 | $5.00 |