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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 25 April 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 18
  3. 39
  4. 56
  5. 64
  6. 12

Jackpot$158,800,000

The crowdHeld 11% less 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 267 of 1,430 under them

← 2018-04-21All recent draws2018-04-28 →

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 feed17 18 39 56 64 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 25 April 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

67oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 67 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 86% of every possible ticket.

  • sum67th
  • odd33th
  • low33th
  • widest gap41th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread47th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 19 of each

1722times
1819times
3918times
5615times
64

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-25

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$5.1Mto 527k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 539%$2.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15%$750.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball27%$1.4M
  • 5 other tiers19%$943.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.05 by chance

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28times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

1210times

Every number was expected about that many times after 266 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 (17, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 April 2018 — its closest relative in 266 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 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

194

The numbers add up to 194 — the 66th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

56 had not appeared for 9 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 38% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$158,800,000
  • Match 52≈ 1.1 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15≈ 15 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4304≈ 363 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball779≈ 914 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,874≈ 19k by chance$7.00
  • Match 320,293≈ 23k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball142,037≈ 144k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball345,710≈ 346k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈13M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 779 winners, 15% fewer than the 914 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball345,710$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball142,037$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,874$7.00
    Match 320,293$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball779$100
    Match 4304$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15$50,000
    Match 52$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$158,800,000