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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.
Cash 5 · draw
ResultCash 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
Rules5/35 · since Jan 2010draw 2,193 of 6,129 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:40 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 2 January 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 34% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 313 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,192 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 (4, 27, 28, 32) with the draw of 11 July 2014 — its closest relative in 2,192 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 64% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 January 2016): 27 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 97 — the 62th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 90. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 48% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →6 had not appeared for 10 draws. A number waits about 7 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 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈62k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 827 winners, 0% more than the 827 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 4 | 23 | $300 |
| Match 3 | 827 | $10.00 |
| Match 4 with Kicker | 0 | $4,350 |
| Match 3 with Kicker | 32 | $65.00 |
| Match 2 with Kicker | 527 | $5.00 |
| Match 1 with Kicker | 2,481 | $2.00 |
| Totals | 3,890 | — |