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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Cash 5 · draw
ResultCash 5
Jackpot$100,000
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
Rules5/35 · since Jan 2010draw 929 of 6,135 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:40 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 July 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 19% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 133 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 928 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 →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (17, 25, 27) with the draw of 24 May 2012 — its closest relative in 928 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 July 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 110 — the 82th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 90. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 48% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 16 draws. A number waits about 7 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →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 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈70k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 936 winners, 0% fewer than the 936 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Match 4 | 31 | $300 |
| Match 3 | 936 | $10.00 |
| Match 4 with Kicker | 3 | $4,350 |
| Match 3 with Kicker | 31 | $65.00 |
| Match 2 with Kicker | 483 | $5.00 |
| Match 1 with Kicker | 2,499 | $2.00 |
| Totals | 3,983 | — |