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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 8
  3. 19
  4. 27
  5. 34
  6. 10

Jackpot$528,800,000

The crowdHeld 21% more 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 29 of 1,430 under them

← 2016-01-09All recent draws2016-01-16 →

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 feed4 8 19 27 34 + 1029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 13 January 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

30oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 30 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 8% of every possible ticket.

  • sum3th
  • odd33th
  • low99th
  • widest gap5th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread10th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

42times
80times
193times
273times
34

Prize breakdown · 2016-01-13

  • Lines in play≈ 559Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$1.8Bto 23M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3 winnerschance said 1.9

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball88%$1.6B
  • Match 54.0%$73.0M
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball3.2%$58.4M
  • 6 other tiers4.9%$88.0M
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10M100MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball

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1time
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

103times

Every number was expected about that many times after 28 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 2 of 5 numbers (19, 34) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 9 January 2016 — its closest relative in 28 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 67% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (9 January 2016): 19, 34 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

92

The numbers add up to 92 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. No two numbers side by side. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

4 had not appeared for 18 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 27% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
3≈ 1.9 by chance
$528,800,000
  • Match 573≈ 48 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball827≈ 613 by chance$50,000
  • Match 420,544≈ 15k by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball47,685≈ 39k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball895,097≈ 798k by chance$7.00
  • Match 31,164,124≈ 965k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball6,343,237≈ 6.1M by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball14,595,721≈ 15M by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈559M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 827 winners, 35% more than the 613 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball14,595,721$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball6,343,237$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball895,097$7.00
    Match 31,164,124$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball47,685$100
    Match 420,544$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball827$50,000
    Match 573$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3$528,800,000