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Hit 5 · draw

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 12
  3. 15
  4. 24
  5. 28

Jackpot$100,000

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 1,263 of 1,676 under them

← 2018-01-22All recent draws2018-01-27 →

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 feed4 12 15 24 2829 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 1,262 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 24 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

49oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 43% of every possible ticket.

  • sum24th
  • odd9th
  • low64th
  • widest gap18th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread33th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 162 of each

4168times
12166times
15148times
24145times
28

Prize breakdown · 2018-01-24

  • Lines in play≈ 90kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$23.1Kto 10k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.16

Where the money went

  • Match 417%$4K
  • Match 342%$9.7K
  • Match 241%$9.4K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100kPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.16 by chance$100,000
  2. Match 4

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179times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,262 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 4 of 5 numbers (4, 12, 24, 28) with the draw of 5 July 2017 — its closest relative in 1,262 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 31% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 January 2018): 15 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

83

The numbers add up to 83 — the 24th 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

12 had not appeared for 12 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 1.9× 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 →
40≈ 27 by chance
$100
  • Match 3967≈ 880 by chance$10.00
  • Match 29,386≈ 9.4k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈90k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 967 winners, 10% more than the 880 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$100,000
    Match 440$100
    Match 3967$10.00
    Match 29,386$1.00
    Totals10,393—