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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
Jackpot$76,500,000
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/49 + 1/42 · Nov 1997 – Oct 2002draw 318 of 514 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.
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 317 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 18 November 2000 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 32 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 317 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 3 of 5 numbers (3, 32, 41) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 21 April 1999 — its closest relative in 317 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 80% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 November 2000): 32, 41 carried over. Chance says 43% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 134 — the 61th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 125. Side-by-side numbers: 31–32. 36% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →31 had not appeared for 28 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 →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 7% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $4.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $4.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $7.00 |
| Match 3 | 0 | $7.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $100 |
| Match 4 | 0 | $100 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $10,000 |
| Match 5 | 0 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $76,500,000 |