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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 9
  3. 11
  4. 33
  5. 64
  6. 21

Jackpot$94,400,000

The crowdHeld 43% 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 241 of 1,430 under them

← 2018-01-20All recent draws2018-01-27 →

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 feed5 9 11 33 64 + 2129 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 24 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

35oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 14% of every possible ticket.

  • sum11th
  • odd89th
  • low89th
  • widest gap81th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread84th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

516times
919times
1115times
3321times
64

Prize breakdown · 2018-01-24

  • Lines in play≈ 9.9Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.5Mto 419k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 528%$1.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball17%$600.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball29%$1.0M
  • 5 other tiers25%$886.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.03 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

2111times

Every number was expected about that many times after 240 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 (5, 9, 64) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 February 2017 — its closest relative in 240 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 35% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 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

122

The numbers add up to 122 — the 11th 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

5 had not appeared for 53 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 29% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$94,400,000
  • Match 51≈ 0.85 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball12≈ 11 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4357≈ 272 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball886≈ 684 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,320≈ 14k by chance$7.00
  • Match 324,530≈ 17k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball117,391≈ 108k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball258,858≈ 259k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈9.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 24,530 winners, 43% more than the 17k 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 Ball258,858$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball117,391$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,320$7.00
    Match 324,530$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball886$100
    Match 4357$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball12$50,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$94,400,000