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Megabucks · draw

Saturday, 14 January 2012

ResultMegabucks

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 26
  3. 27
  4. 28
  5. 37
  6. 42

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/49 · since Apr 2010draw 186 of 1,727 under them

← 2012-01-11All recent draws2012-01-18 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed17 26 27 28 37 4229 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 14 January 2012 — 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 11% of every possible ticket.

  • sum79th
  • odd48th
  • low5th
  • widest gap8th
  • neighbours94th
  • spread9th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each

1718times
2619times
2729times
2824times
37

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23times
4220times

Every number was expected about that many times after 185 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 6 numbers (26, 27, 28) with the draw of 31 December 2011 — its closest relative in 185 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 January 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

177

The numbers add up to 177 — the 79th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27, 27–28. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

42 had not appeared for 13 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

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How many people held it

A line like this is played about 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 48% of the jackpot.

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

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