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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Hit 5 · draw
ResultHit 5
Jackpot$220,000
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 986 of 1,676 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.
Hit 5 was a 5/39 · Jan 2010 – Sep 2020 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 985 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 April 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 32 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 11% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 126 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 985 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 →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (27, 31, 35) with the draw of 18 November 2015 — its closest relative in 985 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 April 2016): 27 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 126 — the 85th 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 →31 had not appeared for 14 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 →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 →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈128k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,174 winners, 6% fewer than the 1.2k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 0 | $220,000 |
| Match 4 | 41 | $100 |
| Match 3 | 1,174 | $10.00 |
| Match 2 | 13,276 | $1.00 |
| Totals | 14,491 | — |