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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 8 March 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 12
  3. 22
  4. 26
  5. 29
  6. 37
  7. 11

JackpotA$15,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 262 of 267 under them

← 2018-03-01All recent draws2018-03-15 →

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 feed4 12 22 26 29 37 + 1129 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 261 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 8 March 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 53% of every possible ticket.

  • sum60th
  • odd21th
  • low21th
  • widest gap28th
  • neighbours21th
  • spread69th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each

446times
1233times
2238times
2652times
29

Prize breakdown · 2018-03-08

  • Paid outA$7.2Mto 353k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$15.0M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$1.5M
  • 719%A$1.4M
  • 843%A$3.1M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$1.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$15,000,000
  2. 2

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42times
3736times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each

1115times

Every number was expected about that many times after 261 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 (12, 29, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 December 2017 — its closest relative in 261 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 March 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

130

The numbers add up to 130 — the 59th 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

4 had not appeared for 18 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 13% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
6
A$65,105
  • 377A$5,307
  • 41,343A$170
  • 53,197A$54.50
  • 643,920A$34.60
  • 756,427A$24.20
  • 8248,401A$12.60
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$15,000,000
    26A$65,105
    377A$5,307
    41,343A$170
    53,197A$54.50
    643,920A$34.60
    756,427A$24.20
    8248,401A$12.60