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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 13
  2. 14
  3. 17
  4. 43
  5. 54
  6. 15

Jackpot$260,000,000

The crowdHeld 2% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/59 + 1/35 · Jan 2012 – Oct 2015draw 123 of 388 under them

← 2013-03-16All recent draws2013-03-23 →

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 feed13 14 17 43 54 + 1529 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/59 + 1/35 · Jan 2012 – Oct 2015 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 122 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 March 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

66oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 86% of every possible ticket.

  • sum41th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap79th
  • neighbours83th
  • spread50th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

1311times
1414times
1710times
4310times
549times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

150times

Every number was expected about that many times after 122 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 (13, 43, 54) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 December 2012 — its closest relative in 122 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 30% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 March 2013): nothing carried over. Chance says 37% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

141

The numbers add up to 141 — the 40th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

54 had not appeared for 21 draws. A number waits about 12 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 17% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2013-03-20

  • Lines in play≈ 39Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$9.4Mto 1.2M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 32lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.22

Where the money went

  • Match 532%$3.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball15%$1.4M
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball30%$2.8M
  • 5 other tiers24%$2.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.22 by chance$260,000,000
  2. Match 53≈ 7.5 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball64≈ 60 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 41,820≈ 2.0k by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball3,007≈ 3.2k by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball54,141≈ 55k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 3105,382≈ 108k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball348,360≈ 350k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball699,539≈ 700k by chance$4.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈39M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,820 winners, 10% fewer than the 2.0k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 0 plus Bonus Ball699,539$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball348,360$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball54,141$7.00
Match 3105,382$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball3,007$100
Match 41,820$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball64$10,000
Match 53$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$260,000,000