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Hit 5 · draw

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 17
  3. 23
  4. 28
  5. 37

Jackpot$150,000

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 933 of 1,676 under them

← 2015-12-14All recent draws2015-12-19 →

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 feed3 17 23 28 3729 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 932 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 16 December 2015 — 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 56% of every possible ticket.

  • sum63th
  • odd89th
  • low31th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread86th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 119 of each

3131times
17120times
23130times
28128times
37

Prize breakdown · 2015-12-16

  • Lines in play≈ 114kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$26.1Kto 13k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.20

Where the money went

  • Match 412%$3.2K
  • Match 342%$11.1K
  • Match 245%$11.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.20 by chance$150,000
  2. Match 4

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137times

Every number was expected about that many times after 932 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 (3, 23, 28) with the draw of 19 October 2015 — its closest relative in 932 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 December 2015): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

108

The numbers add up to 108 — the 62th 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

17 had not appeared for 17 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 →
32≈ 34 by chance
$100
  • Match 31,107≈ 1.1k by chance$10.00
  • Match 211,821≈ 12k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈114k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,107 winners, 0% fewer than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$150,000
    Match 432$100
    Match 31,107$10.00
    Match 211,821$1.00
    Totals12,960—