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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$653,000
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 1,204 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 1,203 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 8 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 13% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 140 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,203 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, 30, 38) with the draw of 29 October 2016 — its closest relative in 1,203 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (7 January 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 48% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 149 — the 93th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 110. Side-by-side numbers: 38–39. 40% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →17 had not appeared for 13 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈71k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 6,001 winners, 1061% more than the 517 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 | 1 | $644,068 |
| Match 4 | 159 | $577 |
| Match 3 | 6,001 | $16.00 |
| Match 2 + XTRA | 6,202 | $2.00 |
| Totals | 0 | — |