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North 5 · draw

Monday, 16 January 2023

ResultNorth 5

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 16
  3. 18
  4. 24
  5. 25

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/31 · Apr 2010 – Jan 2025draw 4,661 of 5,384 under them

← 2023-01-15All recent draws2023-01-17 →

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 feed8 16 18 24 2529 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 4,660 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 January 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

49oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 42% of every possible ticket.

  • sum72th
  • odd8th
  • low31th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours68th
  • spread21th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 752 of each

8710times
16765times
18756times
24738times
25

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777times

Every number was expected about that many times after 4,660 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 (16, 18, 24, 25) with the draw of 27 April 2014 — its closest relative in 4,660 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 January 2023): 24 carried over. Chance says 61% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

91

The numbers add up to 91 — the 71th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 80. Side-by-side numbers: 24–25. 52% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

8 had not appeared for 31 draws. A number waits about 6 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 1.3× 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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