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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 30
  3. 34
  4. 37
  5. 44
  6. 16

Jackpot$106,300,000

The crowdHeld 6% 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 107 of 1,430 under them

← 2016-10-08All recent draws2016-10-15 →

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 feed16 30 34 37 44 + 1629 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 October 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

46oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 32% of every possible ticket.

  • sum38th
  • odd10th
  • low65th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread8th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

169times
3010times
348times
374times
44

Prize breakdown · 2016-10-12

  • Lines in play≈ 10Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$2.6Mto 411k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball29%$750.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball17%$448.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball41%$1.1M
  • 4 other tiers13%$336.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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7times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

161time

Every number was expected about that many times after 106 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 (16, 34) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 April 2016 — its closest relative in 106 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (8 October 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

161

The numbers add up to 161 — the 37th 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

16 had not appeared for 37 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 38% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.03 by chance
$106,300,000
  • Match 50≈ 0.87 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15≈ 11 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4303≈ 278 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball755≈ 701 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,385≈ 14k by chance$7.00
  • Match 318,593≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball112,029≈ 110k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball264,944≈ 265k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈10M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 755 winners, 8% more than the 701 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 Ball264,944$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball112,029$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,385$7.00
    Match 318,593$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball755$100
    Match 4303$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$106,300,000