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Hit 5 · draw

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 13
  2. 18
  3. 21
  4. 27
  5. 28

Jackpot$460,000

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 420 of 1,676 under them

← 2012-09-03All recent draws2012-09-08 →

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 feed13 18 21 27 2829 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 419 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 5 September 2012 — 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 37% of every possible ticket.

  • sum61th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap4th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread5th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 54 of each

1350times
1852times
2159times
2750times
28

Prize breakdown · 2012-09-05

  • Lines in play≈ 240kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$515.4Kto 27k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 51 winnerchance said 0.42

Where the money went

  • Match 589%$460.0K
  • Match 34.5%$23.3K
  • Match 24.8%$25.0K
  • 1 other tier1.4%$7.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 51≈ 0.42 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

51times

Every number was expected about that many times after 419 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 (18, 21, 28) with the draw of 28 September 2011 — its closest relative in 419 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 September 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

107

The numbers add up to 107 — the 60th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 14 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$460,000
  • Match 471≈ 71 by chance$100
  • Match 32,330≈ 2.3k by chance$10.00
  • Match 224,975≈ 25k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈240k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 2,330 winners, 0% fewer than the 2.3k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 51$460,000
    Match 471$100
    Match 32,330$10.00
    Match 224,975$1.00
    Totals27,377—