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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 17 March 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 7
  3. 15
  4. 29
  5. 34
  6. 36
  7. 19

JackpotA$25,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 159 of 267 under them

← 2016-03-10All recent draws2016-03-24 →

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 feed6 7 15 29 34 36 + 1929 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 158 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 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

88oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 88 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 100% of every possible ticket.

  • sum56th
  • odd50th
  • low50th
  • widest gap66th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread50th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

625times
724times
1522times
2928times
34

Prize breakdown · 2016-03-17

  • Paid outA$8.3Mto 369k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$25M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$1.8M
  • 719%A$1.6M
  • 843%A$3.6M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$1.4M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$25,000,000
  2. 2

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27times
3621times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

1912times

Every number was expected about that many times after 158 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, 7, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 15 October 2015 — its closest relative in 158 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (10 March 2016): 6 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

127

The numbers add up to 127 — the 55th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 6–7. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

7 had not appeared for 13 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 16% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
9
A$50,248
  • 351A$9,277
  • 41,188A$223
  • 52,891A$69.80
  • 644,075A$39.95
  • 754,472A$29.00
  • 8266,531A$13.55
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$25,000,000
    29A$50,248
    351A$9,277
    41,188A$223
    52,891A$69.80
    644,075A$39.95
    754,472A$29.00
    8266,531A$13.55