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Lotto · draw

Thursday, 26 January 2017

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 10
  3. 24
  4. 36
  5. 45
  6. 51

Jackpot$9,250,000

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 325 of 1,616 under them

← 2017-01-23All recent draws2017-01-28 →

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 feed8 10 24 36 45 5129 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 324 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 26 January 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

66oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 81% of every possible ticket.

  • sum66th
  • odd21th
  • low50th
  • widest gap35th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread70th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 37 of each

834times
1038times
2428times
3649times
45

Prize breakdown · 2017-01-26

  • Lines in play≈ 597kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$185Kto 84k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$22.7K
  • Match 324%$43.9K
  • Match 239%$71.7K
  • 6 other tiers25%$46.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

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47times
5149times

Every number was expected about that many times after 324 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 3 of 6 numbers (10, 24, 36) with the draw of 1 December 2016 — its closest relative in 324 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 January 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

174

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 →

The longest wait in this draw

8 had not appeared for 13 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 57% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$9,250,000
  • Match 511≈ 8.1 by chance$1,483
  • Match 4420≈ 455 by chance$54.00
  • Match 38,788≈ 8.9k by chance$5.00
  • Match 271,720≈ 72k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot1$1,350
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot34$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot328$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,061$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,193$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈597k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,788 winners, 1% fewer than the 8.9k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$9,250,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 511$1,483
    Match 4 + Extra Shot1$1,350
    Match 4420$54.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot34$125
    Match 38,788$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot328$25.00
    Match 271,720$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,061$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,193$5.00
    Totals0—