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Cash 5 · draw

Thursday, 5 January 2012

ResultCash 5

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 16
  3. 22
  4. 24
  5. 29

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/37 · since Jan 2010draw 627 of 5,243 under them

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Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:54 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 16 22 24 2929 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 5 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

64oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 64 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 85% of every possible ticket.

  • sum47th
  • odd9th
  • low31th
  • widest gap65th
  • neighbours27th
  • spread56th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 85 of each

296times
1681times
2275times
2494times
29

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103times

Every number was expected about that many times after 626 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

Shares 4 of 5 numbers (2, 16, 24, 29) with the draw of 5 March 2010 — its closest relative in 626 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 21% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (4 January 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

93

The numbers add up to 93 — the 46th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 95. No two numbers side by side. 46% of draws have at least one such pair.

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The longest wait in this draw

2 had not appeared for 17 draws. A number waits about 7 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 1.6× 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.

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