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Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

ResultLotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 7
  3. 18
  4. 28
  5. 43
  6. 47

Jackpot$1,900,000

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

Rules6/49 · since Jan 2010draw 54 of 2,632 under them

← 2010-05-03All recent draws2010-05-08 →

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 7 18 28 43 4729 Aug 2026, 09:35 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 5 May 2010 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

78oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 78 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 98% of every possible ticket.

  • sum46th
  • odd48th
  • low48th
  • widest gap50th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread82th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

48times
78times
181time
283times
43

Prize breakdown · 2010-05-05

  • Lines in play≈ 525kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$49.9Kto 9.8k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 54lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 514%$7K
  • Match 430%$15.1K
  • Match 356%$27.8K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.04 by chance$1,900,000
  2. Match 5

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4times
4710times

Every number was expected about that many times after 53 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 2 of 6 numbers (4, 47) with the draw of 20 March 2010 — its closest relative in 53 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 May 2010): 4 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

147

The numbers add up to 147 — the 46th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

18 had not appeared for 40 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 38% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
7≈ 9.7 by chance
$1,000
  • Match 4504≈ 509 by chance$30.00
  • Match 39,269≈ 9.3k by chance$3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈525k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 504 winners, 1% fewer than the 509 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 60$1,900,000
    Match 57$1,000
    Match 4504$30.00
    Match 39,269$3.00
    Totals9,780—