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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Powerball · draw
ResultPowerball
The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules7/35 + 1/20 · since Apr 2018draw 440 of 440 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 17 Sept 2026, 12:01 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 September 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 49% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 88 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 439 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 →Shares 5 of 7 numbers (1, 17, 19, 22, 34) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 13 September 2018 — its closest relative in 439 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 41% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (10 September 2026): 34 carried over. Chance says 82% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 116 — the 34th 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 →8 had not appeared for 14 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 →A line like this is played about 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 25% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈28M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 6 — 743 winners, 3% fewer than the 763 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 7 + Powerball | 0 | A$12,000,000 |
| Match 7 | 3 | A$140,235 |
| Match 6 + Powerball | 47 | A$11,071 |
| Match 6 | 743 | A$611 |
| Match 5 + Powerball | 1,594 | A$215 |
| Match 4 + Powerball | 23,101 | A$92.50 |
| Match 5 | 30,592 | A$54.30 |
| Match 3 + Powerball | 144,667 | A$24.50 |
| Match 2 + Powerball | 422,906 | A$14.40 |