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Cash 5 · draw

Thursday, 19 May 2016

ResultCash 5

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 16
  3. 29
  4. 30
  5. 31

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/34 · Apr 2010 – Oct 2020draw 1,650 of 4,051 under them

← 2016-05-18All recent draws2016-05-20 →

Also drawn that day

  • midday
    1. 1
    2. 3
    3. 13
    4. 22
    5. 29

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:55 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed8 16 29 30 3129 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Cash 5 was a 5/34 · Apr 2010 – Oct 2020 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 1,649 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 19 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 54% of every possible ticket.

  • sum90th
  • odd33th
  • low33th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours95th
  • spread44th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 243 of each

8243times
16223times
29228times
30234times
31264times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,649 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 3 of 5 numbers (8, 29, 31) with the draw of 16 May 2016 — its closest relative in 1,649 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 May 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 57% of draws repeat at least one number.

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Sum and shape

114

The numbers add up to 114 — the 89th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 88. Side-by-side numbers: 29–30, 30–31. 49% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

30 had not appeared for 9 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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