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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Cash 5 · draw
ResultCash 5
The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/43 · since Nov 2018draw 2,274 of 3,336 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:49 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 May 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 23% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 264 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,273 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 →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (8, 29, 34) with the draw of 10 December 2024 — its closest relative in 2,273 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 May 2025): 38 carried over. Chance says 48% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 137 — the 84th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 110. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 40% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →29 had not appeared for 22 draws. A number waits about 9 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈85k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 599 winners, 3% fewer than the 619 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 0 | $120,000 |
| Match 4 | 12 | $250 |
| Match 3 | 599 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 | 7,425 | $1.00 |
| Totals | 8,036 | — |