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North 5 · draw

Tuesday, 18 August 2020

ResultNorth 5

Single source
  1. 21
  2. 25
  3. 28
  4. 29
  5. 31

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/31 · Apr 2010 – Jan 2025draw 3,780 of 5,384 under them

← 2020-08-17All recent draws2020-08-19 →

Where this result came from

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

  • Primarycommercial feed21 25 28 29 3129 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 3,779 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 18 August 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

16oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 16 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum100th
  • odd89th
  • low1th
  • widest gap2th
  • neighbours68th
  • spread2th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 610 of each

21596times
25646times
28631times
29573times
31

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636times

Every number was expected about that many times after 3,779 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 8 May 2012. Chance gave a match this close a 2.2% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 August 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 61% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

134

The numbers add up to 134 — the 100th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 80. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 52% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

25 had not appeared for 13 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as 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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