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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 3 October 2001

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 20
  3. 23
  4. 35
  5. 49
  6. 25

Jackpot$12,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/49 + 1/42 · Nov 1997 – Oct 2002draw 409 of 514 under them

← 2001-09-29All recent draws2001-10-06 →

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 feed2 20 23 35 49 + 2529 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 408 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 October 2001 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

63oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 79% of every possible ticket.

  • sum55th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap62th
  • neighbours32th
  • spread98th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 42 of each

239times
2048times
2341times
3540times
49

Prize breakdown · 2001-10-03

  • Paid out$0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winners$12.0M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$12,000,000
  2. Match 50$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0

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43times
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

2512times

Every number was expected about that many times after 408 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 (2, 20, 23) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 27 January 1999 — its closest relative in 408 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 87% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 September 2001): 2 carried over. Chance says 43% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

129

The numbers add up to 129 — the 54th 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

20 had not appeared for 13 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 0.9× 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 →
$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$12,000,000