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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 27 August 2015

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 5
  3. 6
  4. 11
  5. 23
  6. 28
  7. 14

JackpotA$6,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 130 of 267 under them

← 2015-08-20All recent draws2015-09-03 →

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 6 11 23 28 + 1429 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 129 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 27 August 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 73% of every possible ticket.

  • sum3th
  • odd50th
  • low79th
  • widest gap48th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread28th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 19 of each

215times
522times
620times
1114times
23

Prize breakdown · 2015-08-27

  • Paid outA$4.7Mto 223k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$6M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$992.6K
  • 719%A$890.7K
  • 843%A$2M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$785.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$6,000,000
  2. 2

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20times
2815times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

142times

Every number was expected about that many times after 129 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 4 of 6 numbers (2, 6, 23, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 March 2015 — its closest relative in 129 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 25% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 August 2015): 2 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

75

The numbers add up to 75 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 5–6. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 25 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 2.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
7
A$36,455
  • 355A$4,854
  • 41,105A$135
  • 52,050A$55.55
  • 627,232A$36.45
  • 741,623A$21.40
  • 8150,601A$13.55
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$6,000,000
    27A$36,455
    355A$4,854
    41,105A$135
    52,050A$55.55
    627,232A$36.45
    741,623A$21.40
    8150,601A$13.55