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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$412,000
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
Rules5/43 · since Nov 2018draw 2,506 of 3,334 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:49 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 January 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 29% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 291 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,505 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 4 of 5 numbers (14, 21, 26, 34) with the draw of 2 June 2025 — its closest relative in 2,505 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 39% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 January 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 48% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 115 — the 57th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 110. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 40% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →14 had not appeared for 30 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 →A line like this is played about 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈157k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,151 winners, 0% more than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 0 | $340,000 |
| Match 4 | 36 | $250 |
| Match 3 | 1,151 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 | 13,776 | $1.00 |
| Totals | 14,963 | — |