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Hit 5 · draw

Monday, 26 September 2016

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 15
  3. 17
  4. 18
  5. 23

Jackpot$200,000

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 1,055 of 1,676 under them

← 2016-09-24All recent draws2016-09-28 →

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 feed5 15 17 18 2329 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 1,054 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 26 September 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

34oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 14% of every possible ticket.

  • sum18th
  • odd89th
  • low89th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread11th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 135 of each

5130times
15121times
17138times
18134times
23

Prize breakdown · 2016-09-26

  • Lines in play≈ 121kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$428.9Kto 14k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 52 winnerschance said 0.21

Where the money went

  • Match 593%$400.0K
  • Match 32.8%$12.1K
  • Match 22.9%$12.5K
  • 1 other tier1.0%$4.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 52≈ 0.21 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

150times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,054 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 (15, 18, 23) with the draw of 2 March 2016 — its closest relative in 1,054 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 September 2016): 15, 18 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

78

The numbers add up to 78 — the 18th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

5 had not appeared for 29 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 1.7× 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 →
$200,000
  • Match 443≈ 36 by chance$100
  • Match 31,211≈ 1.2k by chance$10.00
  • Match 212,525≈ 13k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈121k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,211 winners, 3% more than the 1.2k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 52$200,000
    Match 443$100
    Match 31,211$10.00
    Match 212,525$1.00
    Totals13,781—