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Hit 5 · draw

Saturday, 21 May 2016

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 11
  3. 24
  4. 31
  5. 33

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 1,000 of 1,676 under them

← 2016-05-18All recent draws2016-05-23 →

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 feed8 11 24 31 3329 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 999 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 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

73oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 73 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 98% of every possible ticket.

  • sum61th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread38th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 128 of each

8119times
11136times
24112times
31123times
33

Prize breakdown · 2016-05-21

  • Lines in play≈ 216kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$49.8Kto 25k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.37

Where the money went

  • Match 413%$6.4K
  • Match 342%$21K
  • Match 245%$22.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.37 by chance$280,000
  2. Match 4

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126times

Every number was expected about that many times after 999 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 (11, 24, 33) with the draw of 24 June 2015 — its closest relative in 999 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 May 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

107

The numbers add up to 107 — the 60th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. No two numbers side by side. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

31 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as 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 →
64≈ 64 by chance
$100
  • Match 32,098≈ 2.1k by chance$10.00
  • Match 222,401≈ 22k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈216k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 2,098 winners, 0% fewer than the 2.1k 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 464$100
    Match 32,098$10.00
    Match 222,401$1.00
    Totals24,563—