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Palmetto Cash 5 · draw

Friday, 7 September 2012

ResultPalmetto Cash 5

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 8
  3. 17
  4. 20
  5. 32

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 850 of 2,502 under them

← 2012-09-06All recent draws2012-09-08 →

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 feed1 8 17 20 3229 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 849 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 7 September 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 80% of every possible ticket.

  • sum21th
  • odd33th
  • low67th
  • widest gap45th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread75th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 112 of each

1117times
8113times
17105times
2089times
32130times

Every number was expected about that many times after 849 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 4 of 5 numbers (1, 8, 20, 32) with the draw of 25 December 2010 — its closest relative in 849 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 24% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (6 September 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

78

The numbers add up to 78 — the 20th 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

20 had not appeared for 25 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as 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 →

Prize breakdown · 2012-09-07

  • Lines in play≈ 17kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$17.5Kto 4.6k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 4lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 421%$3.6K
  • Match 318%$3.2K
  • Match 241%$7.2K
  • 3 other tiers20%$3.5K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.03 by chance$100,000
  2. Match 43≈ 5.5 by chance$300
  3. Match 3161≈ 174 by chance$5.00
  4. Match 21,803≈ 1.8k by chance$1.00
  5. Match 50$300,000
  6. Match 44$900
  7. Match 3212$15.00
  8. Match 22,388$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 — 1,803 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 50$100,000
Match 5 (with Power-Up)0$300,000
Match 43$300
Match 4 (with Power-Up)4$900
Match 3161$5.00
Match 3 (with Power-Up)212$15.00
Match 21,803$1.00
Match 2 (with Power-Up)2,388$3.00
Totals4,571—