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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 7 April 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 17
  3. 20
  4. 38
  5. 39
  6. 20

Jackpot$74,900,000

The crowdHeld 19% 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 262 of 1,432 under them

← 2018-04-04All recent draws2018-04-11 →

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 17 20 38 39 + 2029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 7 April 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

47oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 33% of every possible ticket.

  • sum9th
  • odd33th
  • low65th
  • widest gap27th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread22th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 19 of each

215times
1719times
2021times
3813times
39

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-07

  • Lines in play≈ 10Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$2.7Mto 428k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball29%$800.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball17%$472.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball40%$1.1M
  • 4 other tiers14%$374.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.04 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

209times

Every number was expected about that many times after 261 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 (2, 17, 20) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 November 2015 — its closest relative in 261 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 38% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (4 April 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

116

The numbers add up to 116 — the 9th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 38–39. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 had not appeared for 31 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 →
$74,900,000
  • Match 50≈ 0.89 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball16≈ 11 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4323≈ 285 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball822≈ 717 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,745≈ 15k by chance$7.00
  • Match 321,357≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball118,073≈ 113k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball271,318≈ 271k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈10M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 21,357 winners, 19% more than the 18k 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 Ball271,318$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball118,073$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,745$7.00
    Match 321,357$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball822$100
    Match 4323$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball16$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$74,900,000