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Palmetto Cash 5 · draw

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

ResultPalmetto Cash 5

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 9
  3. 12
  4. 26
  5. 28

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

Rules5/38 · Apr 2010 – Mar 2024draw 23 of 2,502 under them

← 2010-05-03All recent draws2010-05-05 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 9 12 26 2829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Palmetto Cash 5 was a 5/38 · Apr 2010 – Mar 2024 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 22 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 May 2010 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 68% of every possible ticket.

  • sum19th
  • odd10th
  • low67th
  • widest gap63th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread46th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

25times
94times
125times
267times
281time

Every number was expected about that many times after 22 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (9, 12, 28) with the draw of 9 April 2010 — its closest relative in 22 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 21% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 May 2010): 26 carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

77

The numbers add up to 77 — the 19th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 98. No two numbers side by side. 45% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 21 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 2.2× 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 →

Prize breakdown · 2010-05-04

  • Lines in play≈ 17kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$128.8Kto 5.1k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 3lines took a prize
  • Match 51 winnerchance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 578%$100K
  • Match 48.4%$10.8K
  • Match 26.5%$8.4K
  • 4 other tiers7.5%$9.6K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 51≈ 0.03 by chance$100,000
  2. Match 48≈ 5.5 by chance$300
  3. Match 3198≈ 176 by chance$5.00
  4. Match 21,823≈ 1.8k by chance$1.00
  5. Match 50$300,000
  6. Match 412$900
  7. Match 3292$15.00
  8. Match 22,786$3.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈17k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,823 winners, 0% more than the 1.8k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 51$100,000
Match 5 (with Power-Up)0$300,000
Match 48$300
Match 4 (with Power-Up)12$900
Match 3198$5.00
Match 3 (with Power-Up)292$15.00
Match 21,823$1.00
Match 2 (with Power-Up)2,786$3.00
Totals5,120—