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Hit 5 · draw

Wednesday, 29 August 2018

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 18
  2. 22
  3. 27
  4. 30
  5. 31

Jackpot$120,000

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 1,356 of 1,676 under them

← 2018-08-27All recent draws2018-09-01 →

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 feed18 22 27 30 3129 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 1,355 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 August 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

28oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum88th
  • odd31th
  • low9th
  • widest gap2th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread3th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 174 of each

18173times
22173times
27176times
30166times
31

Prize breakdown · 2018-08-29

  • Lines in play≈ 88kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$19.6Kto 10k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.15

Where the money went

  • Match 411%$2.1K
  • Match 343%$8.4K
  • Match 247%$9.2K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.15 by chance$120,000
  2. Match 4

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170times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,355 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 (27, 30, 31) with the draw of 3 July 2017 — its closest relative in 1,355 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 August 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

128

The numbers add up to 128 — the 87th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 30–31. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

30 had not appeared for 15 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 1.6× 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 →
21≈ 26 by chance
$100
  • Match 3835≈ 861 by chance$10.00
  • Match 29,185≈ 9.2k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈88k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 835 winners, 3% fewer than the 861 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$120,000
    Match 421$100
    Match 3835$10.00
    Match 29,185$1.00
    Totals10,041—