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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$120,000
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 2,520 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.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 January 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 43 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 29% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 293 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,519 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 →This exact draw has happened before, on 14 June 2023. Chance gave a match this close a 0.3% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (17 January 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 48% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 100 — the 35th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 110. Side-by-side numbers: 22–23. 40% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →11 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 ≈81k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 680 winners, 14% more than the 595 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 0 | $110,000 |
| Match 4 | 18 | $250 |
| Match 3 | 680 | $5.00 |
| Match 2 | 7,139 | $1.00 |
| Totals | 7,837 | — |