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Lotto · draw

Monday, 12 January 2015

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 9
  2. 17
  3. 18
  4. 20
  5. 30
  6. 45

Jackpot$15,250,000

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 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025draw 6 of 1,616 under them

← 2015-01-10All recent draws2015-01-15 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed9 17 18 20 30 4529 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto was a 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 5 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 12 January 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

69oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 88% of every possible ticket.

  • sum29th
  • odd50th
  • low79th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours72th
  • spread37th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

90times
171time
181time
201time
30

Prize breakdown · 2015-01-12

  • Lines in play≈ 669kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$205Kto 94k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$24.3K
  • Match 325%$51K
  • Match 239%$80.4K
  • 6 other tiers24%$49.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

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0times
450times

Every number was expected about that many times after 5 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 2 of 6 numbers (17, 18) with the draw of 5 January 2015 — its closest relative in 5 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 52% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (10 January 2015): 20 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

139

The numbers add up to 139 — the 28th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 3 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 38% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$15,250,000
  • Match 56≈ 9.1 by chance$2,924
  • Match 4571≈ 510 by chance$42.50
  • Match 310,197≈ 10.0k by chance$5.00
  • Match 280,427≈ 80k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot3$1,063
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot44$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot300$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,035$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,041$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈669k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 571 winners, 12% more than the 510 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$15,250,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 56$2,924
    Match 4 + Extra Shot3$1,063
    Match 4571$42.50
    Match 3 + Extra Shot44$125
    Match 310,197$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot300$25.00
    Match 280,427$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,035$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,041$5.00
    Totals0—