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Hit 5 · draw

Saturday, 21 May 2011

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 16
  3. 35
  4. 36
  5. 37

Jackpot$280,000

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

Rules5/39 · Jan 2010 – Sep 2020draw 217 of 1,676 under them

← 2011-05-18All recent draws2011-05-23 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 16 35 36 3729 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Hit 5 was a 5/39 · Jan 2010 – Sep 2020 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 216 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 21 May 2011 — 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 14% of every possible ticket.

  • sum86th
  • odd31th
  • low31th
  • widest gap88th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread91th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each

229times
1635times
3532times
3622times
37

Prize breakdown · 2011-05-21

  • Lines in play≈ 178kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$39.7Kto 20k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.31

Where the money went

  • Match 410%$3.8K
  • Match 344%$17.4K
  • Match 247%$18.5K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.31 by chance$280,000
  2. Match 4

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31times

Every number was expected about that many times after 216 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 (2, 16, 35, 37) with the draw of 4 May 2011 — its closest relative in 216 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 6.2% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 May 2011): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

126

The numbers add up to 126 — the 85th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 35–36, 36–37. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

36 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
38≈ 52 by chance
$100
  • Match 31,741≈ 1.7k by chance$10.00
  • Match 218,474≈ 18k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈178k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,741 winners, 1% more than the 1.7k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$280,000
    Match 438$100
    Match 31,741$10.00
    Match 218,474$1.00
    Totals20,253—