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Hit 5 · draw

Monday, 18 January 2016

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 22
  3. 31
  4. 37
  5. 39

Jackpot$170,000

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 947 of 1,676 under them

← 2016-01-16All recent draws2016-01-20 →

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 feed16 22 31 37 3929 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 946 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 January 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

41oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 24% of every possible ticket.

  • sum97th
  • odd64th
  • low9th
  • widest gap18th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread28th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 121 of each

16128times
22119times
31117times
37140times
39

Prize breakdown · 2016-01-18

  • Lines in play≈ 100kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$192.8Kto 11k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 51 winnerchance said 0.17

Where the money went

  • Match 588%$170.0K
  • Match 35.2%$10.0K
  • Match 25.4%$10.4K
  • 1 other tier1.3%$2.5K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 51≈ 0.17 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

100times

Every number was expected about that many times after 946 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 (16, 22, 37) with the draw of 5 July 2014 — its closest relative in 946 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 January 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

145

The numbers add up to 145 — the 97th 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

31 had not appeared for 25 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 →
$170,000
  • Match 425≈ 30 by chance$100
  • Match 3995≈ 975 by chance$10.00
  • Match 210,399≈ 10k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈100k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 995 winners, 2% more than the 975 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 51$170,000
    Match 425$100
    Match 3995$10.00
    Match 210,399$1.00
    Totals11,420—