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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 5 April 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 8
  3. 18
  4. 22
  5. 23
  6. 25
  7. 10

JackpotA$6,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 266 of 267 under them

← 2018-03-29All recent draws2018-04-12 →

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 feed5 8 18 22 23 25 + 1029 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 265 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 April 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

64oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 64 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 78% of every possible ticket.

  • sum21th
  • odd50th
  • low50th
  • widest gap28th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread8th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 40 of each

543times
845times
1835times
2240times
23

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-05

  • Paid outA$11.0Mto 242k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$6.0M

Where the money went

  • 155%A$6.0M
  • 610%A$1.1M
  • 820%A$2.2M
  • 5 other tiers16%A$1.8M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 11A$6,000,000
  2. 2

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50times
2544times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each

1014times

Every number was expected about that many times after 265 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 (5, 22, 23, 25) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 20 July 2017 — its closest relative in 265 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 45% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 March 2018): 8 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 10 repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

101

The numbers add up to 101 — the 20th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 22–23. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

23 had not appeared for 8 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 2.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
7
A$38,582
  • 355A$5,137
  • 41,089A$145
  • 52,082A$57.85
  • 629,924A$35.15
  • 742,161A$22.35
  • 8166,514A$13.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$6,000,000
    27A$38,582
    355A$5,137
    41,089A$145
    52,082A$57.85
    629,924A$35.15
    742,161A$22.35
    8166,514A$13.00