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Megabucks · draw

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 18
  3. 28
  4. 35
  5. 44
  6. 49

Jackpot$1,464,913

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Jan 2010draw 318 of 1,906 under them

← 2013-01-12All recent draws2013-01-19 →

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 feed3 18 28 35 44 4929 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 January 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

56oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 61% of every possible ticket.

  • sum79th
  • odd48th
  • low20th
  • widest gap50th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread95th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each

345times
1837times
2840times
3539times
44

Prize breakdown · 2013-01-16

  • Paid out$0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 60 winners$1.5M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60$1,464,913
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
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Match 60$1,464,913

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34times
4943times

Every number was expected about that many times after 317 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 (18, 44, 49) with the draw of 10 October 2012 — its closest relative in 317 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (12 January 2013): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

177

The numbers add up to 177 — the 79th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

18 had not appeared for 28 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 52% of the jackpot.

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

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