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Cash 5 · draw

Saturday, 24 December 2016

ResultCash 5

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 16
  3. 17
  4. 22
  5. 27

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/41 · May 2016 – Nov 2018draw 222 of 897 under them

← 2016-12-23All recent draws2016-12-25 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:49 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed6 16 17 22 2729 Aug 2026, 09:32 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Cash 5 was a 5/41 · May 2016 – Nov 2018 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 221 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 24 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 50% of every possible ticket.

  • sum25th
  • odd32th
  • low64th
  • widest gap22th
  • neighbours76th
  • spread17th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

625times
1623times
1735times
2225times
27

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23times

Every number was expected about that many times after 221 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.

Frequency Explorer →

Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (16, 17, 27) with the draw of 24 June 2016 — its closest relative in 221 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 85% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 December 2016): 16 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

88

The numbers add up to 88 — the 25th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 105. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 42% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

27 had not appeared for 9 draws. A number waits about 8 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 1.8× 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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