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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.
Jersey Cash 5 · draw
ResultJersey Cash 5
Jackpot$548,000
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 · Sep 2014 – Jun 2020draw 970 of 2,104 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:50 UTC.
Jersey Cash 5 was a 5/43 · Sep 2014 – Jun 2020 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 969 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 17 May 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 39% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 113 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 969 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 (11, 14, 24) with the draw of 2 February 2017 — its closest relative in 969 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 May 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 48% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 98 — the 32th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 110. No two numbers side by side. 40% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →11 had not appeared for 29 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 1.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than 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.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈890k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 + XTRA — 6,511 winners, 92% fewer than the 78k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 0 | $548,000 |
| Match 4 | 227 | $356 |
| Match 3 | 6,498 | $12.00 |
| Match 2 + XTRA | 6,511 | $2.00 |
| Totals | 0 | — |