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Megabucks · draw

Saturday, 14 January 2012

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 19
  2. 27
  3. 28
  4. 38
  5. 40
  6. 42

Jackpot$11,504,488

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Jan 2010draw 213 of 1,909 under them

← 2012-01-11All recent draws2012-01-18 →

Where this result came from

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

  • Primarycommercial feed19 27 28 38 40 4229 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 14 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

28oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum91th
  • odd20th
  • low5th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours70th
  • spread6th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each

1926times
2722times
2828times
3821times
40

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-14

  • Paid out$0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 60 winners$11.5M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60$11,504,488
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
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Match 60$11,504,488

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19times
4228times

Every number was expected about that many times after 212 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 (19, 28, 40) with the draw of 30 July 2011 — its closest relative in 212 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 January 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

194

The numbers add up to 194 — the 91th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

27 had not appeared for 13 draws. A number waits about 8 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than 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.

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