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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 4 September 2014

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 17
  3. 18
  4. 24
  5. 25
  6. 26
  7. 6

JackpotA$3,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 79 of 267 under them

← 2014-08-28All recent draws2014-09-11 →

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 17 18 24 25 26 + 629 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 78 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 4 September 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

51oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 44% of every possible ticket.

  • sum34th
  • odd21th
  • low50th
  • widest gap74th
  • neighbours99th
  • spread19th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each

27times
177times
188times
2412times
25

Prize breakdown · 2014-09-04

  • Paid outA$4Mto 178k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$3M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$849K
  • 719%A$762K
  • 843%A$1.7M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$670.9K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$3,000,000
  2. 2

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8times
2618times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

63times

Every number was expected about that many times after 78 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 6 numbers (17, 18, 26) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 25 April 2013 — its closest relative in 78 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 93% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (28 August 2014): 26 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

112

The numbers add up to 112 — the 34th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18, 24–25, 25–26. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

25 had not appeared for 28 draws. A number waits about 7 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 7% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
3
A$72,680
  • 334A$6,709
  • 4774A$165
  • 51,482A$65.65
  • 621,015A$40.40
  • 730,118A$25.30
  • 8124,179A$14.05
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$3,000,000
    23A$72,680
    334A$6,709
    4774A$165
    51,482A$65.65
    621,015A$40.40
    730,118A$25.30
    8124,179A$14.05