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Pick 5 · draw · evening

Saturday, 20 August 2016

eveningPick 5

Single source
  1. 0
  2. 2
  3. 4
  4. 7
  5. 9

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/9 · since Sep 2012draw 973 of 7,280 under them

← 2016-08-19All recent draws2016-08-21 →

Also drawn that day

  • midday
    1. 1
    2. 3
    3. 4
    4. 7
    5. 8

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:51 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed0 2 4 7 929 Aug 2026, 09:33 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

44oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 28% of every possible ticket.

  • sum13th
  • odd30th
  • low70th
  • widest gap46th
  • neighbours1th
  • spread89th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 486 of each

0499times
2509times
4487times
7494times
9

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512times

Every number was expected about that many times after 972 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.

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Its nearest twin

This exact draw has happened before, on 13 July 2016. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (19 August 2016): 9 carried over. Chance says 100% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

22

The numbers add up to 22 — the 42th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 23. No two numbers side by side. 98% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

4 had not appeared for 6 draws. A number waits about 2 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

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How many people held it

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 0% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

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