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Pick 5 · draw

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

ResultPick 5

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 5
  3. 10
  4. 16
  5. 37

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/38 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2023draw 2,018 of 4,167 under them

← 2016-09-19All recent draws2016-09-21 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:49 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed4 5 10 16 3729 Aug 2026, 09:32 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Pick 5 was a 5/38 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2023 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 2,017 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 20 September 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

35oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.

  • sum14th
  • odd33th
  • low90th
  • widest gap94th
  • neighbours74th
  • spread86th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 265 of each

4254times
5268times
10248times
16262times
37

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265times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,017 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 5 numbers (4, 10, 16) with the draw of 22 December 2015 — its closest relative in 2,017 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (19 September 2016): 10 carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

72

The numbers add up to 72 — the 14th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 98. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5. 45% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

37 had not appeared for 14 draws. A number waits about 8 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

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