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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 6 January 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 12
  2. 29
  3. 30
  4. 33
  5. 61
  6. 26

Jackpot$559,700,000

The crowdHeld 3% 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 236 of 1,430 under them

← 2018-01-03All recent draws2018-01-10 →

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 feed12 29 30 33 61 + 2629 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 6 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

59oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 65% of every possible ticket.

  • sum41th
  • odd65th
  • low89th
  • widest gap72th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread53th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

1219times
2917times
3017times
3318times
61

Prize breakdown · 2018-01-06

  • Lines in play≈ 85Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$587.1Mto 3.4M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.29

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball95%$559.7M
  • Match 51.2%$7.0M
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball1.5%$8.9M
  • 6 other tiers2.0%$11.5M
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball

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22times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

267times

Every number was expected about that many times after 235 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 (12, 30) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 9 August 2017 — its closest relative in 235 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 January 2018): 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

165

The numbers add up to 165 — the 41th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 29–30. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

33 had not appeared for 44 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 33% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
1≈ 0.29 by chance
$559,700,000
  • Match 57≈ 7.3 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball100≈ 93 by chance$50,000
  • Match 42,294≈ 2.3k by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball5,935≈ 5.9k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball121,961≈ 121k by chance$7.00
  • Match 3150,796≈ 147k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball933,841≈ 926k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball2,222,356≈ 2.2M by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈85M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 150,796 winners, 3% more than the 147k 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 Ball2,222,356$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball933,841$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball121,961$7.00
    Match 3150,796$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball5,935$100
    Match 42,294$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball100$50,000
    Match 57$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1$559,700,000