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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Cash 5 · draw
ResultCash 5
Jackpot$25,000
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
Rules5/37 · since Jan 2010draw 3,435 of 5,246 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:54 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 1 January 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 37% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 464 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 3,434 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 →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (14, 17, 21) with the draw of 18 November 2020 — its closest relative in 3,434 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (31 December 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 81 — the 27th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 95. Side-by-side numbers: 21–22. 46% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →21 had not appeared for 7 draws. A number waits about 7 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 1.8× 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 →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈224k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 3,060 winners, 20% more than the 2.5k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 1 | $25,000 |
| Match 4 | 111 | $350 |
| Match 3 | 3,060 | $15.00 |
| Match 2 | 25,452 | $0.00 |
| Totals | 28,624 | — |