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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 23 February 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 15
  3. 16
  4. 20
  5. 26
  6. 29
  7. 12

JackpotA$6,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 208 of 267 under them

← 2017-02-16All recent draws2017-03-02 →

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 feed1 15 16 20 26 29 + 1229 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 207 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 23 February 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

69oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 87% of every possible ticket.

  • sum28th
  • odd50th
  • low79th
  • widest gap66th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread38th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 31 of each

120times
1526times
1632times
2038times
26

Prize breakdown · 2017-02-23

  • Paid outA$4.9Mto 218k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$6M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$1M
  • 719%A$920.9K
  • 843%A$2.1M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$811.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$6,000,000
  2. 2

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42times
2936times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

1212times

Every number was expected about that many times after 207 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 (16, 20, 26, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 June 2013 — its closest relative in 207 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 37% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 February 2017): 15, 26, 29 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

107

The numbers add up to 107 — the 27th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

1 had not appeared for 30 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 1.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 7% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
1
A$263,701
  • 346A$5,997
  • 4845A$182
  • 51,991A$59.10
  • 626,051A$39.40
  • 734,109A$27.00
  • 8154,742A$13.65
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$6,000,000
    21A$263,701
    346A$5,997
    4845A$182
    51,991A$59.10
    626,051A$39.40
    734,109A$27.00
    8154,742A$13.65