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Hit 5 · draw

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 8
  5. 10

Jackpot$360,000

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 1,209 of 1,676 under them

← 2017-09-18All recent draws2017-09-23 →

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 feed2 3 4 8 1029 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 1,208 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 20 September 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

5oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 5 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 0% of every possible ticket.

  • sum0th
  • odd9th
  • low99th
  • widest gap1th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread0th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 155 of each

2163times
3165times
4154times
8146times
10

Prize breakdown · 2017-09-20

  • Lines in play≈ 218kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$416.7Kto 25k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 51 winnerchance said 0.38

Where the money went

  • Match 586%$360K
  • Match 35.8%$24.1K
  • Match 25.4%$22.7K
  • 1 other tier2.4%$9.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 51≈ 0.38 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

148times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,208 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 (2, 4, 10) with the draw of 19 August 2017 — its closest relative in 1,208 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 September 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

27

The numbers add up to 27 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 2–3, 3–4. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

3 had not appeared for 11 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 3.2× 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 →
$360,000
  • Match 499≈ 64 by chance$100
  • Match 32,407≈ 2.1k by chance$10.00
  • Match 222,683≈ 23k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈218k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 2,407 winners, 13% more than the 2.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 51$360,000
    Match 499$100
    Match 32,407$10.00
    Match 222,683$1.00
    Totals25,190—