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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 5 April 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 20
  3. 46
  4. 53
  5. 54
  6. 13

Jackpot$40,000,000

The crowdHeld 18% 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 157 of 1,430 under them

← 2017-04-01All recent draws2017-04-08 →

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 feed8 20 46 53 54 + 1329 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 5 April 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

61oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 70% of every possible ticket.

  • sum55th
  • odd10th
  • low33th
  • widest gap64th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread44th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each

87times
2013times
465times
539times
54

Prize breakdown · 2017-04-05

  • Lines in play≈ 9.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$4.0Mto 375k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 550%$2.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball10%$408.6K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball25%$986.1K
  • 5 other tiers15%$611.9K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.03 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

134times

Every number was expected about that many times after 156 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 (8, 20) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 12 November 2016 — its closest relative in 156 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 April 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

181

The numbers add up to 181 — the 55th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 53–54. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 35% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$40,000,000
  • Match 52≈ 0.81 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball7≈ 10 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4198≈ 259 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball601≈ 652 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,709≈ 13k by chance$7.00
  • Match 313,297≈ 16k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball102,143≈ 103k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball246,536≈ 247k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈9.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 13,297 winners, 18% fewer than the 16k 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 Ball246,536$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball102,143$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,709$7.00
    Match 313,297$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball601$100
    Match 4198$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball7$50,000
    Match 52$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$40,000,000