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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 23 January 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 11
  5. 39
  6. 46

Jackpot$21,250,000

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

Rules6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025draw 167 of 1,616 under them

← 2016-01-21All recent draws2016-01-25 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:44 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed6 8 9 11 39 4629 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Lotto was a 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 166 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 23 January 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 53% of every possible ticket.

  • sum13th
  • odd50th
  • low79th
  • widest gap96th
  • neighbours72th
  • spread55th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 19 of each

624times
820times
913times
1120times
39

Prize breakdown · 2016-01-23

  • Lines in play≈ 925kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$286.3Kto 130k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 411%$32.5K
  • Match 325%$72.7K
  • Match 239%$111.2K
  • 6 other tiers24%$69.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.05 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

21times
4624times

Every number was expected about that many times after 166 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 (6, 8, 11) with the draw of 7 September 2015 — its closest relative in 166 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 93% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 January 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

119

The numbers add up to 119 — the 13th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

39 had not appeared for 19 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 40% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$21,250,000
  • Match 516≈ 13 by chance$1,470
  • Match 4774≈ 706 by chance$42.00
  • Match 314,544≈ 14k by chance$5.00
  • Match 2111,249≈ 111k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot5$1,050
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot59$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot476$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,412$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,523$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈925k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 774 winners, 10% more than the 706 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$21,250,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 516$1,470
    Match 4 + Extra Shot5$1,050
    Match 4774$42.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot59$125
    Match 314,544$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot476$25.00
    Match 2111,249$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,412$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,523$5.00
    Totals0—