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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 21 February 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 15
  3. 31
  4. 34
  5. 36
  6. 8

Jackpot$245,100,000

The crowdHeld 6% 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 249 of 1,430 under them

← 2018-02-17All recent draws2018-02-24 →

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 feed7 15 31 34 36 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 February 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

41oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 22% of every possible ticket.

  • sum12th
  • odd65th
  • low89th
  • widest gap19th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread9th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 18 of each

715times
1513times
3118times
3411times
36

Prize breakdown · 2018-02-21

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.8Mto 662k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.06

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball21%$800.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball19%$729.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball45%$1.7M
  • 4 other tiers15%$551.9K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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14times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

89times

Every number was expected about that many times after 248 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 (15, 31, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 29 March 2017 — its closest relative in 248 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 36% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 February 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

123

The numbers add up to 123 — the 12th 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

31 had not appeared for 27 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 31% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.06 by chance
$245,100,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.4 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball16≈ 18 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4429≈ 445 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,297≈ 1.1k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball24,578≈ 23k by chance$7.00
  • Match 329,609≈ 28k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball182,309≈ 177k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball423,926≈ 424k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,297 winners, 16% more than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball423,926$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball182,309$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball24,578$7.00
    Match 329,609$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,297$100
    Match 4429$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball16$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$245,100,000