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Cash 5 · draw

Saturday, 18 March 2023

ResultCash 5

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 12
  3. 17
  4. 21
  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

Rules5/41 · Oct 2020 – Oct 2023draw 507 of 720 under them

← 2023-03-17All recent draws2023-03-19 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:55 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed5 12 17 21 2229 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Cash 5 was a 5/41 · Oct 2020 – Oct 2023 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 506 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 18 March 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

33oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.

  • sum14th
  • odd64th
  • low89th
  • widest gap6th
  • neighbours76th
  • spread8th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 62 of each

561times
1270times
1754times
2171times
22

Prize breakdown · 2023-03-18

  • Lines in play≈ 91kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$17.9Kto 9.5k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.12

Where the money went

  • Match 428%$5K
  • Match 324%$4.3K
  • Match 248%$8.6K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.12 by chance$224,000
  2. Match 4

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63times

Every number was expected about that many times after 506 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 (12, 17, 21) with the draw of 31 March 2021 — its closest relative in 506 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 March 2023): nothing carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

77

The numbers add up to 77 — the 13th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 105. Side-by-side numbers: 21–22. 42% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

22 had not appeared for 9 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 2.0× 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 →
25≈ 22 by chance
$200
  • Match 3858≈ 763 by chance$5.00
  • Match 28,642≈ 8.6k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈91k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 858 winners, 13% more than the 763 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$224,000
    Match 425$200
    Match 3858$5.00
    Match 28,642$1.00
    Totals9,525—