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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 24 October 1998

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 12
  3. 17
  4. 25
  5. 40
  6. 20

Jackpot$34,800,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/49 + 1/42 · Nov 1997 – Oct 2002draw 102 of 514 under them

← 1998-10-21All recent draws1998-10-28 →

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 feed10 12 17 25 40 + 2029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/49 + 1/42 · Nov 1997 – Oct 2002 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 101 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 24 October 1998 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 67% of every possible ticket.

  • sum25th
  • odd32th
  • low89th
  • widest gap42th
  • neighbours32th
  • spread33th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

108times
1210times
176times
259times
40

Prize breakdown · 1998-10-24

  • Paid out$0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winners$34.8M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$34,800,000
  2. Match 50$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0

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6times
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

204times

Every number was expected about that many times after 101 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 (10, 12, 17) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 20 December 1997 — its closest relative in 101 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 40% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 October 1998): nothing carried over. Chance says 43% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

104

The numbers add up to 104 — the 24th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 125. No two numbers side by side. 36% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 26 draws. A number waits about 10 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than 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 →
$10,000
  • Match 40$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$7.00
  • Match 30$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$7.00
    Match 30$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0$100
    Match 40$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0$10,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$34,800,000