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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 17 October 2015

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 48
  2. 49
  3. 57
  4. 62
  5. 69
  6. 19

Jackpot$80,000,000

The crowdHeld 22% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015draw 4 of 1,430 under them

← 2015-10-14All recent draws2015-10-21 →

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 feed48 49 57 62 69 + 1929 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 October 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

18oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 18 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum100th
  • odd65th
  • low1th
  • widest gap1th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread2th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

481time
490times
570times
620times
69

Prize breakdown · 2015-10-17

  • Lines in play≈ 11Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.3Mto 409k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 26lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 530%$1.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball16%$550.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball34%$1.1M
  • 5 other tiers20%$668.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.04 by chance

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0times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

190times

Every number was expected about that many times after 3 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 1 of 5 numbers (48) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 October 2015 — its closest relative in 3 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 69% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 October 2015): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

285

The numbers add up to 285 — the 100th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 48–49. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

48 had not appeared for 3 draws. A number waits about 14 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 46% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$80,000,000
  • Match 51≈ 0.92 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball11≈ 12 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4234≈ 295 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball581≈ 744 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,381≈ 15k by chance$7.00
  • Match 314,517≈ 19k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball99,691≈ 117k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball281,454≈ 281k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈11M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 14,517 winners, 22% fewer than the 19k 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 Ball281,454$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball99,691$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,381$7.00
    Match 314,517$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball581$100
    Match 4234$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball11$50,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$80,000,000