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Hit 5 · draw

Saturday, 8 September 2018

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 11
  3. 16
  4. 17
  5. 18

Jackpot$270,000

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 1,360 of 1,676 under them

← 2018-09-05All recent draws2018-09-10 →

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 11 16 17 1829 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 1,359 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 8 September 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

19oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 19 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.

  • sum9th
  • odd64th
  • low99th
  • widest gap4th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread3th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 174 of each

5169times
11180times
16180times
17175times
18

Prize breakdown · 2018-09-08

  • Lines in play≈ 209kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$316.4Kto 24k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 51 winnerchance said 0.36

Where the money went

  • Match 585%$270K
  • Match 36.3%$20.1K
  • Match 26.9%$21.8K
  • 1 other tier1.5%$4.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 51≈ 0.36 by chance

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174times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,359 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 (11, 16, 17) with the draw of 29 May 2017 — its closest relative in 1,359 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 September 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

67

The numbers add up to 67 — the 8th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17, 17–18. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

11 had not appeared for 18 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 →
$270,000
  • Match 446≈ 62 by chance$100
  • Match 32,008≈ 2.0k by chance$10.00
  • Match 221,765≈ 22k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈209k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 2,008 winners, 2% fewer than the 2.0k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 51$270,000
    Match 446$100
    Match 32,008$10.00
    Match 221,765$1.00
    Totals23,820—