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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 31 August 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 10
  3. 24
  4. 56
  5. 61
  6. 12

Jackpot$154,200,000

The crowdHeld about as often as 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 95 of 1,430 under them

← 2016-08-27All recent draws2016-09-03 →

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 10 24 56 61 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 31 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

60oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 60 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 68% of every possible ticket.

  • sum33th
  • odd33th
  • low65th
  • widest gap83th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread75th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

57times
107times
244times
566times
61

Prize breakdown · 2016-08-31

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.0Mto 545k 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 Ball20%$600.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball20%$604.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball46%$1.4M
  • 4 other tiers14%$432.2K
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

125times

Every number was expected about that many times after 94 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 (56, 61) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 August 2016 — its closest relative in 94 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 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

156

The numbers add up to 156 — the 33th 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

24 had not appeared for 16 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 31% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.05 by chance
$154,200,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.1 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball12≈ 15 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4325≈ 366 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball946≈ 923 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,757≈ 19k by chance$7.00
  • Match 322,830≈ 23k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball151,220≈ 145k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball349,065≈ 349k 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 2 plus Bonus Ball — 20,757 winners, 9% more than the 19k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball349,065$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball151,220$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,757$7.00
    Match 322,830$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball946$100
    Match 4325$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball12$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$154,200,000