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Hit 5 · draw

Monday, 29 February 2016

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 7
  3. 21
  4. 24
  5. 27

Jackpot$270,000

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 965 of 1,676 under them

← 2016-02-27All recent draws2016-03-02 →

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 7 21 24 2729 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 964 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 29 February 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 68% of every possible ticket.

  • sum21th
  • odd89th
  • low31th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread43th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 124 of each

1117times
7139times
21123times
24109times
27

Prize breakdown · 2016-02-29

  • Lines in play≈ 152kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$35.9Kto 17k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.26

Where the money went

  • Match 413%$4.8K
  • Match 342%$15.2K
  • Match 244%$15.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.26 by chance$270,000
  2. Match 4

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133times

Every number was expected about that many times after 964 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 (7, 21, 27) with the draw of 5 December 2015 — its closest relative in 964 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 February 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

80

The numbers add up to 80 — the 20th 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

27 had not appeared for 23 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 2.2× 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 →
48≈ 45 by chance
$100
  • Match 31,522≈ 1.5k by chance$10.00
  • Match 215,843≈ 16k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈152k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,522 winners, 2% more than the 1.5k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$270,000
    Match 448$100
    Match 31,522$10.00
    Match 215,843$1.00
    Totals17,413—