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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 26 August 2000

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 22
  3. 27
  4. 40
  5. 43
  6. 5

Jackpot$7,490,637

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/49 + 1/42 · Nov 1997 – Oct 2002draw 294 of 514 under them

← 2000-08-23All recent draws2000-08-30 →

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 feed16 22 27 40 43 + 529 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 293 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 26 August 2000 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

57oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.

  • sum77th
  • odd32th
  • low32th
  • widest gap28th
  • neighbours32th
  • spread23th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 30 of each

1628times
2225times
2730times
4033times
43

Prize breakdown · 2000-08-26

  • Lines in play≈ 35as the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$7.5Mto 1 winning lines
  • Won something1 in 35lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.00
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.00 by chance$7,490,637
  2. Match 50≈ 0.00 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball

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30times
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

54times

Every number was expected about that many times after 293 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 (16, 22, 43) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 31 May 2000 — its closest relative in 293 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 77% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 August 2000): 40, 43 carried over. Chance says 43% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

148

The numbers add up to 148 — the 77th 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

22 had not appeared for 9 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
0≈ 0.00 by chance
$10,000
  • Match 40≈ 0.00 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.00 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.06 by chance$7.00
  • Match 30≈ 0.17 by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.29 by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.47 by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈35 lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 plus Bonus Ball — 1 winner against 0.00 expected — a real stretch for a count this size. That is usually the crowd: numbers more popular than average swell the higher tiers most.

    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 Ball1$7,490,637