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Lotto · draw

Saturday, 31 December 2016

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 25
  3. 31
  4. 41
  5. 43
  6. 51

Jackpot$6,500,000

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 314 of 1,616 under them

← 2016-12-29All recent draws2017-01-02 →

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 feed17 25 31 41 43 5129 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 313 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 31 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

32oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 32 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 10% of every possible ticket.

  • sum92th
  • odd99th
  • low21th
  • widest gap10th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread29th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 36 of each

1739times
2527times
3133times
4121times
43

Prize breakdown · 2016-12-31

  • Lines in play≈ 596kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$191.9Kto 84k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$23.8K
  • Match 324%$45.4K
  • Match 237%$71.6K
  • 6 other tiers27%$51.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.03 by chance

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34times
5146times

Every number was expected about that many times after 313 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 (25, 41, 43) with the draw of 5 November 2016 — its closest relative in 313 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 December 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

208

The numbers add up to 208 — the 92th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

25 had not appeared for 24 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 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 66% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$6,500,000
  • Match 57≈ 8.1 by chance$2,462
  • Match 4466≈ 454 by chance$51.00
  • Match 39,072≈ 8.9k by chance$5.00
  • Match 271,638≈ 72k by chance$1.00
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot5$1,275
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot26$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot292$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,043$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,309$5.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0no winners
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈596k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,072 winners, 2% more than the 8.9k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$6,500,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$0.00
    Match 57$2,462
    Match 4 + Extra Shot5$1,275
    Match 4466$51.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot26$125
    Match 39,072$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot292$25.00
    Match 271,638$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,043$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,309$5.00
    Totals0—