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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.
Take 5 · draw · evening
eveningTake 5
Jackpot$39,362
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
Rules5/39 · since Apr 2010draw 182 of 7,034 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:51 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 May 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 46% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 181 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 2 of 5 numbers (22, 26) with the draw of 9 May 2022 — its closest relative in 181 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (17 May 2022): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 126 — the 85th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 25–26. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →15 had not appeared for 13 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 →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 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 ≈426k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 3,944 winners, 5% fewer than the 4.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 1 | $39,362 |
| Match 4 | 100 | $590 |
| Match 3 | 3,944 | $24.50 |
| Match 2 | 44,255 | $1.00 |
| Totals | 48,300 | — |