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Lotto · draw

Thursday, 16 January 2020

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 7
  3. 13
  4. 20
  5. 35
  6. 39

Jackpot$3,500,000

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 790 of 1,616 under them

← 2020-01-13All recent draws2020-01-18 →

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 feed4 7 13 20 35 3929 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 789 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 16 January 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 49% of every possible ticket.

  • sum12th
  • odd79th
  • low79th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours26th
  • spread33th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 91 of each

487times
791times
1383times
2094times
35

Prize breakdown · 2020-01-16

  • Lines in play≈ 500kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$166.3Kto 71k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 7lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.02

Where the money went

  • Match 411%$17.9K
  • Match 323%$38.4K
  • Match 236%$60.2K
  • 6 other tiers30%$49.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.02 by chance

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83times
3995times

Every number was expected about that many times after 789 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 (13, 20, 35) with the draw of 25 November 2019 — its closest relative in 789 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 January 2020): 39 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

118

The numbers add up to 118 — the 12th 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

13 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 54% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$3,500,000
  • Match 54≈ 6.8 by chance$3,246
  • Match 4365≈ 382 by chance$49.00
  • Match 37,671≈ 7.5k by chance$5.00
  • Match 260,171≈ 60k by chance$1.00
  • Match 5 + Extra Shot0$81,150
  • Match 4 + Extra Shot4$1,225
  • Match 3 + Extra Shot40$125
  • Match 2 + Extra Shot372$25.00
  • Match 1 + Extra Shot1,138$10.00
  • Match 0 + Extra Shot1,255$5.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈500k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 7,671 winners, 3% more than the 7.5k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$3,500,000
    Match 5 + Extra Shot0$81,150
    Match 54$3,246
    Match 4 + Extra Shot4$1,225
    Match 4365$49.00
    Match 3 + Extra Shot40$125
    Match 37,671$5.00
    Match 2 + Extra Shot372$25.00
    Match 260,171$1.00
    Match 1 + Extra Shot1,138$10.00
    Match 0 + Extra Shot1,255$5.00
    Totals0—