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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
Jackpot$100,000
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 2,518 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 16 January 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 293 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,517 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 (1, 3, 37) with the draw of 8 May 2025 — its closest relative in 2,517 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 January 2026): 3, 37 carried over. Chance says 48% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 74 — the 9th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 110. No two numbers side by side. 40% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →26 had not appeared for 10 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈216k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,607 winners, 2% more than the 1.6k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 1 | $444,573 |
| Match 4 | 31 | $250 |
| Match 3 | 1,607 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 | 18,887 | $1.00 |
| Totals | 20,526 | — |