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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 27 August 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 32
  3. 48
  4. 49
  5. 63
  6. 20

Jackpot$140,100,000

The crowdHeld 6% 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 94 of 1,430 under them

← 2016-08-24All recent draws2016-08-31 →

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 32 48 49 63 + 2029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 27 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 46% of every possible ticket.

  • sum68th
  • odd33th
  • low33th
  • widest gap72th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread84th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

46times
3213times
482times
494times
63

Prize breakdown · 2016-08-27

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$2.8Mto 526k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18%$500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball20%$563.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball49%$1.4M
  • 4 other tiers14%$384.0K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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6times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

203times

Every number was expected about that many times after 93 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 (4, 49) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 April 2016 — its closest relative in 93 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 August 2016): 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

196

The numbers add up to 196 — the 68th 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 90 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 40% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.05 by chance
$140,100,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.1 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball10≈ 14 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4300≈ 362 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball802≈ 911 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,645≈ 19k by chance$7.00
  • Match 321,466≈ 23k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball140,817≈ 144k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball344,623≈ 345k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈13M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 802 winners, 12% fewer than the 911 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 Ball344,623$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball140,817$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,645$7.00
    Match 321,466$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball802$100
    Match 4300$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball10$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$140,100,000