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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 21 January 2012

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 5
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 12
  6. 31

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2020draw 187 of 1,077 under them

← 2012-01-18All recent draws2012-01-25 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:46 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 5 8 9 12 3129 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto was a 6/40 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2020 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 186 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 21 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 39% of every possible ticket.

  • sum2th
  • odd50th
  • low95th
  • widest gap92th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread43th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each

233times
534times
831times
931times
12

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25times
3126times

Every number was expected about that many times after 186 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 6 numbers (2, 8, 31) with the draw of 4 January 2012 — its closest relative in 186 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 January 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

67

The numbers add up to 67 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

12 had not appeared for 20 draws. A number waits about 7 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 3.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.

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

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