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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 9
  3. 27
  4. 29
  5. 42
  6. 9

Jackpot$155,200,000

The crowdHeld 35% 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 153 of 1,430 under them

← 2017-03-18All recent draws2017-03-25 →

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 feed2 9 27 29 42 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 March 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 36% of every possible ticket.

  • sum6th
  • odd65th
  • low89th
  • widest gap27th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread28th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each

211times
911times
2713times
2911times
42

Prize breakdown · 2017-03-22

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$161.3Mto 547k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball96%$155.2M
  • Match 51.2%$2.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball1.0%$1.6M
  • 6 other tiers1.6%$2.5M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1

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11times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

97times

Every number was expected about that many times after 152 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 (29, 42) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 January 2017 — its closest relative in 152 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 March 2017): 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

109

The numbers add up to 109 — 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

27 had not appeared for 31 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 →
≈ 0.04 by chance
$155,200,000
  • Match 52≈ 1.1 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball32≈ 14 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4555≈ 355 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,340≈ 894 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball23,504≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  • Match 330,105≈ 22k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball153,819≈ 141k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball337,993≈ 338k 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 — 1,340 winners, 50% more than the 894 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 Ball337,993$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball153,819$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball23,504$7.00
    Match 330,105$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,340$100
    Match 4555$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball32$50,000
    Match 52$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1$155,200,000