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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 11
  2. 24
  3. 31
  4. 40
  5. 44
  6. 27

Jackpot$119,000,000

The crowdHeld 7% more 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 329 of 388 under them

← 2015-03-07All recent draws2015-03-14 →

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 feed11 24 31 40 44 + 2729 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 328 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 11 March 2015 — 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.

  • sum50th
  • odd32th
  • low32th
  • widest gap16th
  • neighbours35th
  • spread25th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each

1132times
2427times
3127times
4026times
4428times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

2710times

Every number was expected about that many times after 328 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 (11, 31, 44) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 December 2013 — its closest relative in 328 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 62% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (7 March 2015): 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

150

The numbers add up to 150 — the 49th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

31 had not appeared for 23 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 · 2015-03-11

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$6.4Mto 439k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 31lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.08

Where the money went

  • Match 562%$4M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball7.9%$507.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball16%$997.8K
  • 5 other tiers14%$897.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.08 by chance$119,000,000
  2. Match 54≈ 2.7 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball27≈ 21 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 4858≈ 724 by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,172≈ 1.1k by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,794≈ 20k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 340,896≈ 38k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball126,801≈ 125k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball249,452≈ 249k by chance$4.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈14M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 858 winners, 18% more than the 724 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 0 plus Bonus Ball249,452$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball126,801$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,794$7.00
Match 340,896$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,172$100
Match 4858$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball27$10,000
Match 54$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$119,000,000