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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 17 March 2011

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 5
  3. 7
  4. 28
  5. 34
  6. 6

JackpotA$20,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 116 of 218 under them

← 2011-03-10All recent draws2011-03-24 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed2 5 7 28 34 + 629 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 115 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 17 March 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

56oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.

  • sum8th
  • odd32th
  • low65th
  • widest gap84th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread52th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each

214times
514times
713times
289times
34

Prize breakdown · 2011-03-17

  • Paid outA$25Mto 83k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$20M

Where the money went

  • 180%A$20M
  • 26.8%A$1.7M
  • 66.2%A$1.5M
  • 3 other tiers6.9%A$1.7M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 11A$20,000,000
  2. 2

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9times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

65times

Every number was expected about that many times after 115 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (5, 7, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 February 2011 — its closest relative in 115 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 53% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (10 March 2011): 2 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

76

The numbers add up to 76 — the 8th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. No two numbers side by side. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

5 had not appeared for 4 draws. A number waits about 9 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
30
A$56,904
  • 3156A$5,005
  • 45,747A$106
  • 56,360A$54.10
  • 670,315A$22.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$20,000,000
    230A$56,904
    3156A$5,005
    45,747A$106
    56,360A$54.10
    670,315A$22.00