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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 16 January 2021

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 26
  2. 28
  3. 32
  4. 36
  5. 39
  6. 52

Jackpot$3,950,000

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 947 of 1,616 under them

← 2021-01-14All recent draws2021-01-18 →

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 feed26 28 32 36 39 5229 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 946 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 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

26oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.

  • sum94th
  • odd5th
  • low5th
  • widest gap27th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread9th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 109 of each

26115times
28118times
3286times
36121times
39

Prize breakdown · 2021-01-16

  • Lines in play≈ 579kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$421.2Kto 83k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 310%$42.4K
  • Match 217%$69.7K
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot51%$215.9K
  • 7 other tiers22%$93.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

114times
52100times

Every number was expected about that many times after 946 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 4 of 6 numbers (28, 32, 36, 39) with the draw of 2 December 2019 — its closest relative in 946 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 52% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 January 2021): 26 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

213

The numbers add up to 213 — the 94th 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

32 had not appeared for 18 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 74% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$3,950,000
  • Match 51≈ 7.9 by chance$8,635
  • Match 4385≈ 442 by chance$61.50
  • Match 38,471≈ 8.6k by chance$5.00
  • Match 269,661≈ 70k by chance$1.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot1$215,863
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot7$1,538
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot84$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot475$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,729$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot2,107$5.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈579k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,471 winners, 2% fewer than the 8.6k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$3,950,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot1$215,863
    Match 51$8,635
    Match 4 + Extra Shot7$1,538
    Match 4385$61.50
    Match 3 + Extra Shot84$125
    Match 38,471$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot475$25.00
    Match 269,661$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,729$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot2,107$5.00
    Totals82,921—