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Fantasy 5 · draw

Monday, 18 April 2016

ResultFantasy 5

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 16
  4. 17
  5. 20

Jackpot$324,000

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

Rules5/42 · since Oct 2015draw 198 of 4,015 under them

← 2016-04-17All recent draws2016-04-19 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:43 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed6 8 16 17 2029 Aug 2026, 09:29 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 April 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

18oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 18 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum6th
  • odd10th
  • low99th
  • widest gap9th
  • neighbours76th
  • spread3th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each

620times
824times
1614times
1727times
20

Prize breakdown · 2016-04-18

  • Lines in play≈ 310kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$34.5Kto 31k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.36

Where the money went

  • Match 433%$11.5K
  • Match 367%$23.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.36 by chance$324,000
  2. Match 4

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28times

Every number was expected about that many times after 197 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 2 of 5 numbers (8, 20) with the draw of 9 April 2016 — its closest relative in 197 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 April 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

67

The numbers add up to 67 — the 6th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 108. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 41% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

6 had not appeared for 27 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than 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 →
83≈ 67 by chance
$138
  • Match 32,565≈ 2.4k by chance$9.00
  • Match 228,289≈ 28k by chance—
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈310k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 2,565 winners, 6% more than the 2.4k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$324,000
    Match 483$138
    Match 32,565$9.00
    Match 228,289$0.00