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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 18 October 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 10
  3. 17
  4. 25
  5. 29
  6. 33
  7. 35
  8. 5

JackpotA$20,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules7/35 + 1/20 · since Apr 2018draw 27 of 443 under them

← 2018-10-11All recent draws2018-10-25 →

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 feed7 10 17 25 29 33 35 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 October 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

44oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 29% of every possible ticket.

  • sum89th
  • odd97th
  • low32th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours12th
  • spread53th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each

75times
103times
174times
257times
29

Prize breakdown · 2018-10-18

  • Paid outA$11.6Mto 658k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$20.0M

Where the money went

  • 615%A$1.7M
  • 823%A$2.7M
  • 940%A$4.7M
  • 5 other tiers22%A$2.5M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$20,000,000
  2. 2

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5times
333times
355times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

51time

Every number was expected about that many times after 26 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 7 numbers (7, 29, 33) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 July 2018 — its closest relative in 26 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 October 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 82% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

156

The numbers add up to 156 — the 89th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 126. No two numbers side by side. 77% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

33 had not appeared for 9 draws. A number waits about 5 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 32% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
6
A$53,440
  • 337A$5,296
  • 4911A$391
  • 51,766A$151
  • 624,571A$70.30
  • 733,353A$40.60
  • 8154,918A$17.25
  • 9442,266A$10.60
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$20,000,000
    26A$53,440
    337A$5,296
    4911A$391
    51,766A$151
    624,571A$70.30
    733,353A$40.60
    8154,918A$17.25
    9442,266A$10.60