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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 3 January 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 18
  3. 37
  4. 39
  5. 42
  6. 12

Jackpot$460,900,000

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 235 of 1,430 under them

← 2017-12-30All recent draws2018-01-06 →

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 18 37 39 42 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 January 2018 — 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.

  • sum20th
  • odd33th
  • low33th
  • widest gap31th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread28th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

214times
1816times
3716times
3914times
42

Prize breakdown · 2018-01-03

  • Lines in play≈ 65Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$21.0Mto 2.6M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.22

Where the money went

  • Match 524%$5.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20%$4.2M
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball32%$6.8M
  • 5 other tiers24%$5.0M
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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15times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

129times

Every number was expected about that many times after 234 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 (18, 37, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 December 2016 — its closest relative in 234 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 35% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 December 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

138

The numbers add up to 138 — the 20th 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

42 had not appeared for 21 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 37% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.22 by chance
$460,900,000
  • Match 55≈ 5.6 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball84≈ 71 by chance$50,000
  • Match 41,860≈ 1.8k by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball4,759≈ 4.5k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball95,197≈ 93k by chance$7.00
  • Match 3113,256≈ 112k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball717,752≈ 707k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball1,697,955≈ 1.7M by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈65M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 4,759 winners, 6% more than the 4.5k 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 Ball1,697,955$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball717,752$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball95,197$7.00
    Match 3113,256$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball4,759$100
    Match 41,860$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball84$50,000
    Match 55$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$460,900,000