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Hit 5 · draw

Saturday, 23 May 2015

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 18
  3. 26
  4. 28
  5. 36

Jackpot$240,000

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 844 of 1,676 under them

← 2015-05-20All recent draws2015-05-25 →

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 feed4 18 26 28 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 843 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 23 May 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 51% of every possible ticket.

  • sum69th
  • odd1th
  • low31th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread76th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 108 of each

4108times
18112times
2699times
28114times
36

Prize breakdown · 2015-05-23

  • Lines in play≈ 197kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$46.0Kto 22k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.34

Where the money went

  • Match 415%$7.0K
  • Match 340%$18.5K
  • Match 245%$20.5K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.34 by chance$240,000
  2. Match 4

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95times

Every number was expected about that many times after 843 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 4 of 5 numbers (4, 26, 28, 36) with the draw of 12 December 2012 — its closest relative in 843 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 22% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 May 2015): 26 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

112

The numbers add up to 112 — the 68th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. No two numbers side by side. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 26 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as 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 →
70≈ 58 by chance
$100
  • Match 31,853≈ 1.9k by chance$10.00
  • Match 220,501≈ 21k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈197k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,853 winners, 4% fewer than the 1.9k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$240,000
    Match 470$100
    Match 31,853$10.00
    Match 220,501$1.00
    Totals22,424—