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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 3 January 1996

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 13
  3. 23
  4. 31
  5. 38
  6. 14

Jackpot$24,200,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Apr 1992 – Nov 1997draw 387 of 578 under them

← 1995-12-30All recent draws1996-01-06 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed8 13 23 31 38 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/45 + 1/45 · Apr 1992 – Nov 1997 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 386 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 3 January 1996 — 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 94% of every possible ticket.

  • sum47th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap16th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread43th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 43 of each

839times
1336times
2352times
3138times
38

Prize breakdown · 1996-01-03

  • Paid out$0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 + Powerball0 winners$24.2M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 + Powerball0$24,200,000
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 5 + Powerball0$24,200,000
Match 50—
Match 4 + Powerball0—
Match 40—
Match 3 + Powerball0—
Match 30—
Match 2 + Powerball0—
Match 1 + Powerball0—
Match 0 + Powerball0—

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32times

Every number was expected about that many times after 386 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 5 numbers (8, 23, 31) with the draw of 4 June 1994 — its closest relative in 386 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 92% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 December 1995): 13 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

113

The numbers add up to 113 — the 47th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. No two numbers side by side. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

38 had not appeared for 29 draws. A number waits about 9 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
Match 5 (with Power Play)
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Match 4 + Powerball (with Power Play)0—
Match 4 (with Power Play)0—
Match 3 + Powerball (with Power Play)0—
Match 3 (with Power Play)0—
Match 2 + Powerball (with Power Play)0—
Match 1 + Powerball (with Power Play)0—
Match 0 + Powerball (with Power Play)0—
Totals0—