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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 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 1,985 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 1,984 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 October 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 55% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 261 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,984 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 4 of 5 numbers (8, 19, 35, 37) with the draw of 29 June 2015 — its closest relative in 1,984 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 48% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 October 2015): nothing carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 106 — the 63th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 98. Side-by-side numbers: 7–8. 45% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →19 had not appeared for 20 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less 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 ≈12k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,318 winners, 0% more than the 1.3k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Match 5 (with Power-Up) | 0 | $500,000 |
| Match 4 | 6 | $300 |
| Match 4 (with Power-Up) | 7 | $1,500 |
| Match 3 | 108 | $5.00 |
| Match 3 (with Power-Up) | 177 | $25.00 |
| Match 2 | 1,318 | $1.00 |
| Match 2 (with Power-Up) | 2,208 | $5.00 |
| Totals | 3,824 | — |