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Hit 5 · draw

Wednesday, 5 January 2022

ResultHit 5

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 5
  3. 14
  4. 16
  5. 23

Jackpot$285,000

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

Rules5/42 · since Sep 2020draw 487 of 2,233 under them

← 2022-01-04All recent draws2022-01-06 →

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 5 14 16 2329 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 5 January 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

35oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 16% of every possible ticket.

  • sum3th
  • odd34th
  • low90th
  • widest gap14th
  • neighbours30th
  • spread16th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 58 of each

260times
551times
1456times
1659times
23

Prize breakdown · 2022-01-05

  • Lines in play≈ 123kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$20.4Kto 12k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 50 winnerschance said 0.14

Where the money went

  • Match 429%$6.0K
  • Match 371%$14.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 50≈ 0.14 by chance$285,000
  2. Match 4

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58times

Every number was expected about that many times after 486 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 (14, 16, 23) with the draw of 15 October 2021 — its closest relative in 486 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (4 January 2022): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

60

The numbers add up to 60 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 108. No two numbers side by side. 41% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

2 had not appeared for 20 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 →
40≈ 27 by chance
$150
  • Match 3957≈ 960 by chance$15.00
  • Match 211,205≈ 11k by chance—
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈123k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 957 winners, 0% fewer than the 960 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 50$285,000
    Match 440$150
    Match 3957$15.00
    Match 211,205$0.00
    Totals12,202—