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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 5 January 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 23
  4. 31
  5. 36
  6. 39
  7. 15

JackpotA$55,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 201 of 267 under them

← 2016-12-29All recent draws2017-01-12 →

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 8 23 31 36 39 + 1529 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 200 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 5 January 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 62% of every possible ticket.

  • sum77th
  • odd50th
  • low21th
  • widest gap74th
  • neighbours21th
  • spread69th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 30 of each

629times
836times
2334times
3132times
36

Prize breakdown · 2017-01-05

  • Paid outA$79.6Mto 1.1M winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$55M

Where the money went

  • 169%A$55M
  • 66.5%A$5.2M
  • 813%A$10.6M
  • 5 other tiers11%A$8.7M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 11A$55,000,000

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30times
3926times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

1512times

Every number was expected about that many times after 200 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 4 of 6 numbers (6, 8, 31, 36) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 13 October 2016 — its closest relative in 200 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 36% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 December 2016): 6, 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

143

The numbers add up to 143 — the 77th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. No two numbers side by side. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

23 had not appeared for 5 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 →
2
11
A$121,041
  • 3222A$6,274
  • 44,249A$183
  • 59,058A$65.60
  • 6130,035A$39.85
  • 7168,416A$27.60
  • 8765,378A$13.90
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$55,000,000
    211A$121,041
    3222A$6,274
    44,249A$183
    59,058A$65.60
    6130,035A$39.85
    7168,416A$27.60
    8765,378A$13.90