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Hit 5 · draw

Monday, 18 April 2011

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 20
  2. 24
  3. 31
  4. 35
  5. 36

Jackpot$270,000

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

Rules5/39 · Jan 2010 – Sep 2020draw 203 of 1,676 under them

← 2011-04-16All recent draws2011-04-20 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed20 24 31 35 3629 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Hit 5 was a 5/39 · Jan 2010 – Sep 2020 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 202 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 April 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

28oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum97th
  • odd31th
  • low9th
  • widest gap8th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread7th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each

2029times
2419times
3125times
3529times
36

Prize breakdown · 2011-04-18

  • Lines in play≈ 122kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$298.2Kto 14k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 51 winnerchance said 0.21

Where the money went

  • Match 591%$270.0K
  • Match 33.9%$11.8K
  • Match 24.2%$12.7K
  • 1 other tier1.3%$3.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 51≈ 0.21 by chance

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21times

Every number was expected about that many times after 202 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 3 of 5 numbers (20, 24, 35) with the draw of 10 July 2010 — its closest relative in 202 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 87% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 April 2011): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

146

The numbers add up to 146 — the 97th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 35–36. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 had not appeared for 12 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$270,000
  • Match 438≈ 36 by chance$100
  • Match 31,175≈ 1.2k by chance$10.00
  • Match 212,663≈ 13k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈122k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,175 winners, 1% fewer than the 1.2k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 51$270,000
    Match 438$100
    Match 31,175$10.00
    Match 212,663$1.00
    Totals13,877—