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Gimme 5 · draw

Friday, 17 August 2018

ResultGimme 5

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 6
  3. 11
  4. 28
  5. 29

Jackpot$100,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/39 · since Nov 2013draw 742 of 2,670 under them

← 2018-08-15All recent draws2018-08-20 →

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 feed2 6 11 28 2929 Aug 2026, 09:29 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 August 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

59oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 71% of every possible ticket.

  • sum16th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap79th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread48th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 95 of each

277times
6100times
1197times
28112times
29

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98times

Every number was expected about that many times after 741 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 3 of 5 numbers (2, 6, 28) with the draw of 3 January 2018 — its closest relative in 741 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 August 2018): 29 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

76

The numbers add up to 76 — the 16th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

2 had not appeared for 18 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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