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Palmetto Cash 5 · draw

Saturday, 14 April 2012

ResultPalmetto Cash 5

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 8
  3. 20
  4. 27
  5. 28

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

Rules5/38 · Apr 2010 – Mar 2024draw 704 of 2,502 under them

← 2012-04-13All recent draws2012-04-15 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed1 8 20 27 2829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Palmetto Cash 5 was a 5/38 · Apr 2010 – Mar 2024 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 703 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 14 April 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

72oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 72 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 97% of every possible ticket.

  • sum29th
  • odd33th
  • low33th
  • widest gap45th
  • neighbours74th
  • spread52th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 93 of each

1101times
891times
2079times
2791times
2892times

Every number was expected about that many times after 703 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 4 of 5 numbers (8, 20, 27, 28) with the draw of 9 April 2011 — its closest relative in 703 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 21% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 April 2012): 28 carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

84

The numbers add up to 84 — the 28th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 98. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 45% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

1 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 2.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than 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 →

Prize breakdown · 2012-04-14

  • Lines in play≈ 16kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$18.4Kto 4.6k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 4lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 420%$3.6K
  • Match 318%$3.4K
  • Match 240%$7.3K
  • 3 other tiers22%$4.1K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.03 by chance$100,000
  2. Match 45≈ 5.3 by chance$300
  3. Match 3161≈ 169 by chance$5.00
  4. Match 21,747≈ 1.7k by chance$1.00
  5. Match 50$300,000
  6. Match 44$900
  7. Match 3225$15.00
  8. Match 22,441$3.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈16k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,747 winners, 0% more than the 1.7k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 50$100,000
Match 5 (with Power-Up)0$300,000
Match 45$300
Match 4 (with Power-Up)4$900
Match 3161$5.00
Match 3 (with Power-Up)225$15.00
Match 21,747$1.00
Match 2 (with Power-Up)2,441$3.00
Totals4,583—