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North 5 · draw

Monday, 16 May 2016

ResultNorth 5

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 16
  3. 17
  4. 24
  5. 28

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/31 · Apr 2010 – Jan 2025draw 2,225 of 5,384 under them

← 2016-05-15All recent draws2016-05-17 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:48 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed4 16 17 24 2829 Aug 2026, 09:32 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

North 5 was a 5/31 · Apr 2010 – Jan 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 2,224 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 16 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

56oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 64% of every possible ticket.

  • sum68th
  • odd8th
  • low31th
  • widest gap68th
  • neighbours68th
  • spread65th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 359 of each

4337times
16371times
17335times
24358times
28

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372times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,224 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

This exact draw has happened before, on 7 March 2011. Chance gave a match this close a 1.3% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 May 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 61% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

89

The numbers add up to 89 — the 67th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 80. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 52% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

16 had not appeared for 28 draws. A number waits about 6 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 0% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

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