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Hit 5 · draw

Monday, 3 December 2012

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 8
  3. 18
  4. 23
  5. 24

Jackpot$200,000

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 458 of 1,676 under them

← 2012-12-01All recent draws2012-12-05 →

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 feed1 8 18 23 2429 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 457 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 3 December 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 55% of every possible ticket.

  • sum14th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread28th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 59 of each

146times
852times
1857times
2358times
2447times

Every number was expected about that many times after 457 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 (8, 18, 23) with the draw of 25 July 2012 — its closest relative in 457 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 December 2012): 1, 8 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

74

The numbers add up to 74 — the 14th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 23–24. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

24 had not appeared for 7 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 2.1× 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 →

Prize breakdown · 2012-12-03

  • Lines in play≈ 130kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$30.0Kto 15k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.23

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$3.5K
  • Match 343%$13.0K
  • Match 245%$13.5K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.23 by chance$200,000
  2. Match 435≈ 38 by chance$100
  3. Match 31,297≈ 1.3k by chance$10.00
  4. Match 213,540≈ 14k by chance$1.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈130k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,297 winners, 2% more than the 1.3k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 50$200,000
Match 435$100
Match 31,297$10.00
Match 213,540$1.00
Totals14,872—

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