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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 21 May 2015

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 13
  3. 14
  4. 31
  5. 35
  6. 40
  7. 16

JackpotA$30,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 116 of 267 under them

← 2015-05-14All recent draws2015-05-28 →

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 feed6 13 14 31 35 40 + 1629 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 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 21 May 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

68oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 68 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 85% of every possible ticket.

  • sum72th
  • odd50th
  • low50th
  • widest gap85th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread75th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

619times
1320times
1417times
3116times
35

Prize breakdown · 2015-05-21

  • Paid outA$11.2Mto 472k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$30M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$2.4M
  • 719%A$2.1M
  • 843%A$4.8M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$1.9M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$30,000,000
  2. 2

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16times
4013times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

162times

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.

Frequency Explorer →

Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 6 numbers (6, 14, 35) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 June 2014 — its closest relative in 115 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 May 2015): 13, 31 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

139

The numbers add up to 139 — the 72th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

40 had not appeared for 10 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 25% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
6
A$100,779
  • 390A$7,029
  • 41,597A$221
  • 53,818A$70.65
  • 656,253A$41.85
  • 774,792A$28.25
  • 8335,777A$14.40
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$30,000,000
    26A$100,779
    390A$7,029
    41,597A$221
    53,818A$70.65
    656,253A$41.85
    774,792A$28.25
    8335,777A$14.40