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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.
Palmetto Cash 5 · draw
ResultPalmetto Cash 5
Jackpot$100,000
The crowdHeld 90% less than 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 822 of 2,502 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.
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 821 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 10 August 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 43 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 28% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 108 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 821 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 (10, 21, 26) with the draw of 30 October 2011 — its closest relative in 821 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (9 August 2012): 26 carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 77 — the 19th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 98. Side-by-side numbers: 9–10, 10–11. 45% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →11 had not appeared for 25 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 →A line like this is played about 2.3× 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 →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈199k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 2,082 winners, 90% fewer than the 22k 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 | $100,000 |
| Match 5 (with Power-Up) | 0 | $200,000 |
| Match 4 | 9 | $300 |
| Match 4 (with Power-Up) | 7 | $600 |
| Match 3 | 2,093 | $5.00 |
| Match 3 (with Power-Up) | 325 | $10.00 |
| Match 2 | 2,082 | $1.00 |
| Match 2 (with Power-Up) | 3,145 | $2.00 |
| Totals | 7,661 | — |