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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$57,576
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 1,449 of 6,998 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 18 Oct 2026, 11:00 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 October 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 16 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 186 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,448 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 (21, 28, 29) with the draw of 3 October 2026 — its closest relative in 1,448 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 135 — the 92th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28, 28–29, 29–30. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 26 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 3.6× 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.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈342k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 3,511 winners, 5% more than the 3.3k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 0 | $57,576 |
| Match 4 | 169 | $469 |
| Match 3 | 3,511 | $22.50 |
| Match 2 | 35,582 | $1.00 |
| Totals | 39,262 | — |