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Health Lottery · draw

Wednesday, 4 May 2016

ResultHealth Lottery

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 30
  3. 35
  4. 37
  5. 40
  6. 22

Jackpot£100,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/50 + 1/50 · since May 2013draw 402 of 3,283 under them

← 2016-05-03All recent draws2016-05-05 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed17 30 35 37 40 + 2229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

43oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 43 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 28% of every possible ticket.

  • sum84th
  • odd66th
  • low10th
  • widest gap27th
  • neighbours32th
  • spread12th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 40 of each

1742times
3032times
3543times
3728times
40

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39times

Every number was expected about that many times after 401 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 5 numbers (17, 30, 40) with the draw of 20 August 2014 — its closest relative in 401 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 85% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 May 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

159

The numbers add up to 159 — the 84th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. No two numbers side by side. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

35 had not appeared for 8 draws. A number waits about 10 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 12% of the jackpot.

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

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