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Palmetto Cash 5 · draw

Tuesday, 5 December 2023

ResultPalmetto Cash 5

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 17
  5. 22

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 2,399 of 2,502 under them

← 2023-12-04All recent draws2023-12-06 →

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 feed4 8 9 17 2229 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 2,398 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 5 December 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

34oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 13% of every possible ticket.

  • sum5th
  • odd33th
  • low90th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours74th
  • spread13th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 316 of each

4310times
8328times
9302times
17288times
22

Prize breakdown · 2023-12-05

  • Lines in play≈ 14kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$26.2Kto 5.9k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 2lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 439%$10.2K
  • Match 316%$4.1K
  • Match 229%$7.6K
  • 3 other tiers17%$4.4K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.03 by chance$100,000

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

333times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,398 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, 9, 17, 22) with the draw of 19 April 2014 — its closest relative in 2,398 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 55% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (4 December 2023): nothing carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

60

The numbers add up to 60 — the 5th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 98. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 45% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

22 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 2.4× 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 →
Match 4
7≈ 4.5 by chance
$300
  • Match 3166≈ 143 by chance$5.00
  • Match 21,482≈ 1.5k by chance$1.00
  • Match 50$200,000
  • Match 417$600
  • Match 3407$10.00
  • Match 23,778$2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈14k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,482 winners, 0% more than the 1.5k 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 47$300
    Match 4 (with Power-Up)17$600
    Match 3166$5.00
    Match 3 (with Power-Up)407$10.00
    Match 21,482$1.00
    Match 2 (with Power-Up)3,778$2.00
    Totals5,857—