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Palmetto Cash 5 · draw

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

ResultPalmetto Cash 5

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. 17
  5. 23

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 847 of 2,502 under them

← 2012-09-03All recent draws2012-09-05 →

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 feed6 12 13 17 2329 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 846 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 4 September 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

32oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 32 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.

  • sum13th
  • odd67th
  • low90th
  • widest gap5th
  • neighbours74th
  • spread10th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 111 of each

689times
12104times
13104times
17104times
23115times

Every number was expected about that many times after 846 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 (6, 12, 13) with the draw of 26 July 2012 — its closest relative in 846 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 September 2012): 13 carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

71

The numbers add up to 71 — the 13th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 98. Side-by-side numbers: 12–13. 45% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

12 had not appeared for 29 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 1.4× 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 · 2012-09-04

  • Lines in play≈ 17kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$24.2Kto 5.1k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 3lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 442%$10.2K
  • Match 312%$3K
  • Match 223%$5.5K
  • 3 other tiers23%$5.5K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.03 by chance$100,000
  2. Match 49≈ 5.5 by chance$300
  3. Match 3195≈ 176 by chance$5.00
  4. Match 21,817≈ 1.8k by chance$1.00
  5. Match 50$200,000
  6. Match 417$600
  7. Match 3299$10.00
  8. Match 22,765$2.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈17k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,817 winners, 0% more than the 1.8k 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$200,000
Match 49$300
Match 4 (with Power-Up)17$600
Match 3195$5.00
Match 3 (with Power-Up)299$10.00
Match 21,817$1.00
Match 2 (with Power-Up)2,765$2.00
Totals5,102—