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Pick 5 · draw

Saturday, 28 January 2012

ResultPick 5

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 12
  3. 16
  4. 17
  5. 22

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/38 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2023draw 566 of 4,167 under them

← 2012-01-27All recent draws2012-01-30 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:49 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed1 12 16 17 2229 Aug 2026, 09:32 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Pick 5 was a 5/38 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2023 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 565 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 28 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

46oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 35% of every possible ticket.

  • sum10th
  • odd33th
  • low90th
  • widest gap36th
  • neighbours74th
  • spread22th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 74 of each

172times
1286times
1677times
1776times
22

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83times

Every number was expected about that many times after 565 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 5 numbers (12, 16, 22) with the draw of 14 October 2011 — its closest relative in 565 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 January 2012): 22 carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

68

The numbers add up to 68 — the 10th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 98. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 45% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 5 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.

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

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