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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 1 October 2015

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 5
  3. 16
  4. 17
  5. 27
  6. 40
  7. 18

JackpotA$3,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 135 of 267 under them

← 2015-09-24All recent draws2015-10-08 →

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 feed3 5 16 17 27 40 + 1829 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 134 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 1 October 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 49% of every possible ticket.

  • sum29th
  • odd79th
  • low79th
  • widest gap58th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread92th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each

319times
523times
1622times
1716times
27

Prize breakdown · 2015-10-01

  • Paid outA$3.6Mto 160k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$3M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$758.3K
  • 719%A$680.2K
  • 843%A$1.6M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$599.1K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$3,000,000
  2. 2

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21times
4015times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

186times

Every number was expected about that many times after 134 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 (5, 16, 17) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 August 2015 — its closest relative in 134 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 September 2015): 16 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

108

The numbers add up to 108 — the 28th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

27 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 11% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
2
A$97,350
  • 320A$10,184
  • 4566A$201
  • 51,345A$64.60
  • 619,100A$39.70
  • 727,594A$24.65
  • 8111,001A$14.05
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$3,000,000
    22A$97,350
    320A$10,184
    4566A$201
    51,345A$64.60
    619,100A$39.70
    727,594A$24.65
    8111,001A$14.05