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Hit 5 · draw

Saturday, 29 September 2018

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 9
  3. 15
  4. 16
  5. 25

Jackpot$190,000

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 1,369 of 1,676 under them

← 2018-09-26All recent draws2018-10-01 →

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 feed2 9 15 16 2529 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 1,368 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 September 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 27% of every possible ticket.

  • sum9th
  • odd64th
  • low89th
  • widest gap18th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread28th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 175 of each

2185times
9162times
15165times
16183times
25

Prize breakdown · 2018-09-29

  • Lines in play≈ 161kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$607.1Kto 18k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 9lines took a prize
  • Match 53 winnerschance said 0.28

Where the money went

  • Match 594%$570K
  • Match 32.6%$15.9K
  • Match 22.8%$16.8K
  • 1 other tier0.7%$4.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 53≈ 0.28 by chance

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161times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,368 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, 15, 16) with the draw of 10 September 2018 — its closest relative in 1,368 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (26 September 2018): 16 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: 15–16. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

2 had not appeared for 8 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 2.1× 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 →
$190,000
  • Match 444≈ 48 by chance$100
  • Match 31,592≈ 1.6k by chance$10.00
  • Match 216,765≈ 17k by chance$1.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈161k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 1,592 winners, 1% more than the 1.6k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 53$190,000
    Match 444$100
    Match 31,592$10.00
    Match 216,765$1.00
    Totals18,404—