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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 30 January 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 12
  3. 16
  4. 31
  5. 43
  6. 18

Jackpot$96,000,000

The crowdHeld 41% 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 34 of 1,430 under them

← 2016-01-27All recent draws2016-02-03 →

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 feed5 12 16 31 43 + 1829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 30 January 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.

  • sum6th
  • odd65th
  • low89th
  • widest gap15th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread24th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

52times
124times
165times
312times
43

Prize breakdown · 2016-01-30

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$5.5Mto 572k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 536%$2.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball16%$900.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball26%$1.4M
  • 5 other tiers22%$1.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.05 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

181time

Every number was expected about that many times after 33 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 (12, 43) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 October 2015 — its closest relative in 33 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 73% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 January 2016): 12 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

107

The numbers add up to 107 — the 6th 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

43 had not appeared for 32 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 28% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$96,000,000
  • Match 52≈ 1.2 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18≈ 15 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4570≈ 374 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,255≈ 941 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball22,576≈ 19k by chance$7.00
  • Match 333,123≈ 24k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball158,322≈ 148k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball355,994≈ 356k 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 3 — 33,123 winners, 41% more than the 24k 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 Ball355,994$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball158,322$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball22,576$7.00
    Match 333,123$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,255$100
    Match 4570$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18$50,000
    Match 52$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$96,000,000