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Lotto Texas · draw

Saturday, 16 January 2016

ResultLotto Texas

Single source
  1. 20
  2. 28
  3. 29
  4. 30
  5. 37
  6. 38

Jackpot$19,000,000

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

Rules6/54 · since Jan 2010draw 631 of 2,020 under them

← 2016-01-13All recent draws2016-01-20 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:54 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed20 28 29 30 37 3829 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 January 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

21oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 21 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.

  • sum68th
  • odd22th
  • low5th
  • widest gap3th
  • neighbours100th
  • spread1th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 70 of each

2065times
2865times
2976times
3053times
37

Prize breakdown · 2016-01-16

  • Lines in play≈ 261kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$306.4Kto 55k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 5lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.01

Where the money went

  • Match 520%$62.4K
  • Match 426%$78.9K
  • Match 335%$106.1K
  • 1 other tier19%$59.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.01 by chance

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68times
3877times

Every number was expected about that many times after 630 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 (20, 30, 37, 38) with the draw of 30 July 2011 — its closest relative in 630 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 34% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 January 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

182

The numbers add up to 182 — the 67th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 165. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29, 29–30, 37–38. 46% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

30 had not appeared for 22 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 59% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$19,000,000
  • Match 52 rows folded in15≈ 2.9 by chance$2,824
  • Match 42 rows folded in1,091≈ 171 by chance$58.00
  • Match 32 rows folded in24,061≈ 3.5k by chance$3.00
  • Match 2 + Extra29,492≈ 29k by chance$2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈261k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 24,061 winners, 588% more than the 3.5k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$19,000,000
    Match 5 + Extra2$12,824
    Match 513$2,824
    Match 4 + Extra156$158
    Match 4935$58.00
    Match 3 + Extra3,396$13.00
    Match 320,665$3.00
    Match 2 + Extra29,492$2.00
    Totals54,659—