Source confidence travels with the result
4,806 draws are independently cross-checked today; the rest keep their single-source label instead of borrowing that confidence. When sources disagree, we store the dispute — we never silently pick a side.
280 lotteries · 1,058,661 draws · 4,806 cross-checked
Every result from the world’s biggest lotteries, checked against a second source. Every “hot number”, “due number” and “pattern” put on trial against chance — with the verdict shown inside the game you actually play.
Powerball, Wednesday, 23 September 2026: 10, 17, 19, 21, 40, Powerball 6
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These 10 are verified by hand — draw by draw, rule change by rule change. Each opens onto its own hub: the latest result, its whole history, and every applicable tool already talking about that game. Live somewhere specific? Pick your country at the top and its games come first.
No trustworthy source exists — the official API is dead and no provider covers it. We’d rather show nothing than make it up.
No trustworthy source exists — the official API is dead and no provider covers it. We’d rather show nothing than make it up.
Got numbers you always play?
Has your line ever come up? How close has it come — and what would it have paid? What has each number done, what does the line look like to every tool, and has the same set turned up in any other lottery in the world? One page, all of it, honestly.
Every number, on trial
The whole wall, no cherry-picking: every number of each game, coloured by how far it has strayed from what chance predicted. The scale tops out at the level of proof — and nothing reaches it.
Wildest number13 drawn 76 times against 103 expected in 1,417 draws — −2.73σ. Testing 69 numbers at once, luck alone produces about 0.7 of these; proof would need 3.8σ.
Most “overdue”51 has not appeared for 51 draws, against an average wait of 14. The chance that some number is out that long right now: 80%. It is not due.
Verdict: chance explains all 69.
One draw, read by every tool
Wednesday, 23 September 2026: 5 · 15 · 26 · 29 · 30. Here is what the site’s tools say about those exact numbers, each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw — nothing can.
Across six shape features, more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.
Draw Fingerprints →The numbers add up to105The 5th percentile of all possible tickets; the average ticket sums to 175. Right in the bell.
Sum Distribution →Its nearest twin3/5Numbers shared with the draw of Wednesday, 25 December 2024, its closest relative in 1,410 draws — a match chance made 92% likely.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →Longest wait among them18 draws26 had not appeared for that long. That is not “due” finally paying out — it is what a fair machine does to some number, most of the time.
Overdue tracker →The full anatomy, every number and the star deck, on the Powerball hub →
Seventeen ways to look at a game
Each card is a live fact about Powerball’s rules and its 1,417 draws. Open one and the game comes with you — or start from any hub, where every applicable tool speaks about your game.
In 1,417 draws every number is expected about 103 times, and a ball favoured by more than 40% over its share would already have shown — see which ones strayed, and how far chance allows.
Open →02A number waits 14 draws on average; 5% of the time it waits 41 or more. It is never “due”.
Open →03The 5 numbers add up to about 175, give or take 43. Most tickets sit in that bell — and so do most draws.
Open →0426.5% of draws contain two numbers side by side. That is the rules talking, not luck.
Open →052,346 possible pairs, each expected together 6.0 times so far — and about 23 will look “special” by chance alone.
Open →06All 69 numbers as a constellation of who appeared with whom — indistinguishable from a shuffled sky.
Open →0732% of draws repeat a number from the draw before. A whole draw repeating: 8.5% likely by now.
Open →08Sorted, the numbers sit about 11.7 apart on average — and every “spread” you can name is exactly as likely as every other.
Open →09It takes about 65 draws for every one of the 69 numbers to appear at least once. The last few are the slow ones.
Open →10292,201,338 possible tickets. Every one has a face — and a typicality score you can look up.
Open →11Seven independent tests of randomness run live against all 1,417 draws. Any of them can fail; watch whether they do.
Open →12The lowest number lands near 12, the highest near 58. Position is a property of sorting, not of the balls.
Open →135/69 rescaled onto the same axes as every other game here. One law, many machines.
Open →14Six documented cases of a beaten lottery. Not one involved patterns in past draws.
Open →15What the world believes about 7, 8, 13 and 17 — and what every machine says back.
Open →16At 30 million tickets, an average line keeps about 35% of a jackpot it wins. Unpopular numbers keep more — and still lose money.
Open →17A full wheel of 10 numbers here is 252 tickets. A guarantee is real; a profit is not.
Open →18Five folk claims about 5/69 games, each answered with the closed form that kills it — never a tip for the next draw.
Open →19Lock a past-only rule, score it on later draws, and compare every hit with the exact 5-of-69 overlap law.
Open →20Every one of 11,238,513 possible draws receives a unique rank; a fair stream fills that line uniformly.
Open →21Monitor all 69 balls after every draw without optional-stopping tricks; evidence 20× is the predeclared 5% alarm line.
Open →22Compare adjacent eras as complete 5-ball sets, so no “interesting” number or summary is chosen after looking.
Open →23Shuffle while preserving all 69 ball totals and every draw size; only pair structure beyond solo frequency remains.
Open →24Odd/even is modulo 2. Turn the dial through 10 and compare each colour recipe with its exact finite-pool law.
Open →25Prize-table winner counts can infer ticket exposure and test whether this game follows the literature-based crowd model.
Open →26Benchmark six detectors at 100 and 400 synthetic 5-of-69 draws: false alarms beside power, before interpreting history.
Open →27Resolve this 5-of-69 history into single-ball, pair-after-single, and all-degree structural bands.
Open →28Test whether whole-draw ranks, successive overlaps, or spacings compress more than shuffled chronology.
Open →29Let hot, cold, overdue, and repeat models learn on discovery draws, then score one locked challenger on untouched 5-of-69 outcomes.
Open →30Monitor complete 5-ball draws with conformal evidence that remains valid whenever the watch is inspected.
Open →31Map every completed wait through its geometric 5/69 law, then test the common 0–1 residual ruler.
Open →32A number a date could have produced is held 28% more often here than an average one, so the same win is split more ways.
Open →33Read what this game paid back across 1,417 draws, and every night it paid out more than it took — always visible only afterwards.
Open →34Its jackpot is one chance in 292,201,338 today — see every rule change that made it so, and by how much each one lengthened the odds.
Open →35Where a game publishes which drum and which set of balls drew it, each set is tested on its own here — the only place a physical fault could hide.
Open →36Six ways of splitting the calendar — weekday, month, part of the month, holiday, slot, machine change — each asking whether this game's draws differ from the rest of their own history.
Open →37Every game this site holds, put through the same three fairness tests — this one among them, with a false-discovery pass across the whole board.
Open →38Replay this game from the start and record everything that ever passed 3.38 standard deviations — the threshold 69 numbers at once demands — then read what happened to it next.
Open →39Open the studio on this game’s own 5-from-69, then move one number and watch the 1-in-292,201,338 jackpot, the sum curve and the break-even prize move together.
Open →40Three simulated machines. Which would you investigate?
Open →41Find a miracle in a fair archive, then count the searches that found it.
Open →42Does the estimated preference for birthday numbers change over time or with jackpots?
Open →43One hypothetical routine, thousands of lives, and the full spread of outcomes.
Open →44Combine primes, squares, Fibonacci numbers and sums. Count how much of chance your recipe describes.
Open →45Find equal steps and mirror pairs in history, then grow a fair comparison.
Open →46HH and HT each have a one-in-four chance in two flips. Why does one take longer to arrive?
Open →47Give fair numbers the wrong baseline and watch an innocent pattern appear.
Open →48From a 1767 paper to every possible arrangement of consecutive runs.
Open →49A profitable lottery can still run out of money. Explore a fictional treasury inspired by history.
Open →50Read the 1969 and 1970 US draft drawings through their actual calendar ranks.
Open →51A royal proposal, an annuity ticket and a national collection: three objects from lottery history.
Open →All 54 explorations, for any of 280 lotteries.
Browse →How we keep it honest
4,806 draws are independently cross-checked today; the rest keep their single-source label instead of borrowing that confidence. When sources disagree, we store the dispute — we never silently pick a side.
When a lottery changes its balls, its history stops being comparable. Statistics here never span a format change — every era is measured on its own, and the hub tells you which era you are looking at.
Every chart first checks whether it has enough draws to mean anything. When it doesn’t, you get the honest answer — “not enough data” — never a pattern conjured from noise.
The case files
A rigged machine, a poisoned generator, a statistician-detective, a man who bought every ticket. Not one of them found a pattern in past draws — because there is none to find. Which is what the rest of this site is for.
A trusted announcer, white latex paint, and eight possible outcomes on live television.
convicted02Fewer than sixty insider wins were expected. There were more than two hundred.
investigated; reforms followed03Seven million combinations, printed in advance, and a jackpot worth four times the cost.
no illegality found04A capped jackpot spilled downward, and for a few days every ticket was worth more than it cost.
no illegality found05The security director wrote the code that drew the numbers, and taught it to forget.
convicted06He could pick winning scratch cards without scratching them. He phoned the lottery.
reported, not exploited07Five, six, seven, eight, nine — and the powerball was ten. Twenty people shared the jackpot, and the machine had done nothing unusual at all.
no illegality found08Powerball’s security team went looking for a fraud and found a biscuit factory in Queens.
no illegality found09For sixteen years South Africa’s PowerBall arrived here without its powerball, and everything in the pipeline reported success.
a record, corrected