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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 17 May 2008

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 12
  2. 14
  3. 15
  4. 21
  5. 43
  6. 30

Jackpot$17,175,336

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/55 + 1/42 · Aug 2005 – Jan 2009draw 284 of 350 under them

← 2008-05-14All recent draws2008-05-21 →

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 feed12 14 15 21 43 + 3029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/55 + 1/42 · Aug 2005 – Jan 2009 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 283 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 17 May 2008 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

45oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 31% of every possible ticket.

  • sum16th
  • odd65th
  • low89th
  • widest gap71th
  • neighbours82th
  • spread25th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each

1231times
1425times
1526times
2124times
43

Prize breakdown · 2008-05-17

  • Lines in play≈ 37as the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$17.2Mto 1 winning lines
  • Won something1 in 37lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.00
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.00 by chance$17,175,336
  2. Match 50≈ 0.00 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball

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33times
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

306times

Every number was expected about that many times after 283 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 (14, 15, 43) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 23 June 2007 — its closest relative in 283 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 64% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 May 2008): 21 carried over. Chance says 39% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

105

The numbers add up to 105 — the 15th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 140. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15. 32% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

14 had not appeared for 30 draws. A number waits about 11 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 9% 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≈ 0.05 by chance$7.00
  • Match 30≈ 0.13 by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.29 by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.53 by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈37 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$17,175,336