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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 18
  2. 22
  3. 29
  4. 54
  5. 57
  6. 8

Jackpot$191,100,000

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 215 of 1,430 under them

← 2017-10-21All recent draws2017-10-28 →

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 feed18 22 29 54 57 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 25 October 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

72oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 72 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 95% of every possible ticket.

  • sum54th
  • odd33th
  • low65th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread26th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 16 of each

1815times
2215times
2916times
5417times
57

Prize breakdown · 2017-10-25

  • Lines in play≈ 15Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$196.8Mto 593k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball97%$191.1M
  • Match 51.0%$2.0M
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0.8%$1.5M
  • 6 other tiers1.1%$2.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1

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17times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

88times

Every number was expected about that many times after 214 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 3 of 5 numbers (29, 54, 57) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 13 July 2016 — its closest relative in 214 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 32% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 October 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

180

The numbers add up to 180 — the 54th 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

29 had not appeared for 13 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 34% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.05 by chance
$191,100,000
  • Match 52≈ 1.3 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22≈ 16 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4363≈ 404 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,036≈ 1.0k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball21,106≈ 21k by chance$7.00
  • Match 323,913≈ 25k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball161,560≈ 160k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball384,616≈ 385k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈15M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 23,913 winners, 6% fewer than the 25k 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 Ball384,616$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball161,560$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball21,106$7.00
    Match 323,913$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,036$100
    Match 4363$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22$50,000
    Match 52$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1$191,100,000