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Palmetto Cash 5 · draw

Thursday, 27 February 2014

ResultPalmetto Cash 5

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 16
  3. 21
  4. 26
  5. 31

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 1,388 of 2,502 under them

← 2014-02-26All recent draws2014-02-28 →

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 feed14 16 21 26 3129 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 1,387 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 27 February 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

47oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 36% of every possible ticket.

  • sum67th
  • odd33th
  • low33th
  • widest gap2th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread10th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 183 of each

14175times
16182times
21186times
26191times
31197times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,387 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 (14, 16, 21, 31) with the draw of 22 November 2011 — its closest relative in 1,387 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 37% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (26 February 2014): 31 carried over. Chance says 53% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

108

The numbers add up to 108 — the 66th 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

26 had not appeared for 11 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 1.5× 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 · 2014-02-27

  • Lines in play≈ 16kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$23.2Kto 4.9k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 3lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 414%$3.3K
  • Match 439%$9K
  • Match 223%$5.4K
  • 3 other tiers24%$5.5K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.03 by chance$100,000
  2. Match 411≈ 5.3 by chance$300
  3. Match 3185≈ 170 by chance$5.00
  4. Match 21,753≈ 1.8k by chance$1.00
  5. Match 50$200,000
  6. Match 415$600
  7. Match 3281$10.00
  8. Match 22,695$2.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈16k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,753 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$200,000
Match 411$300
Match 4 (with Power-Up)15$600
Match 3185$5.00
Match 3 (with Power-Up)281$10.00
Match 21,753$1.00
Match 2 (with Power-Up)2,695$2.00
Totals4,940—