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Gimme 5 · draw

Friday, 18 August 2017

ResultGimme 5

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 8
  3. 14
  4. 16
  5. 24

Jackpot$100,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/39 · since Nov 2013draw 587 of 2,671 under them

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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 feed5 8 14 16 2429 Aug 2026, 09:29 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 August 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

28oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum9th
  • odd9th
  • low89th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread14th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 75 of each

583times
881times
1474times
1691times
24

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74times

Every number was expected about that many times after 586 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 5 numbers (5, 8, 14, 16) with the draw of 3 March 2014 — its closest relative in 586 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 16% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 August 2017): 8 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

67

The numbers add up to 67 — the 8th 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

16 had not appeared for 30 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

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How many people held it

A line like this is played about 2.1× 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.

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