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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 25 August 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 20
  2. 25
  3. 54
  4. 57
  5. 63
  6. 8

Jackpot$70,000,000

The crowdHeld 19% 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 302 of 1,430 under them

← 2018-08-22All recent draws2018-08-29 →

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 feed20 25 54 57 63 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

60oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 60 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 69% of every possible ticket.

  • sum84th
  • odd65th
  • low33th
  • widest gap75th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread36th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

2026times
2524times
5424times
5723times
63

Prize breakdown · 2018-08-25

  • Lines in play≈ 10Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.4Mto 399k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 26lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 529%$1.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19%$650.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball31%$1.1M
  • 5 other tiers20%$690.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.03 by chance

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27times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each

811times

Every number was expected about that many times after 301 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 (20, 54) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 23 May 2018 — its closest relative in 301 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 August 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

219

The numbers add up to 219 — the 84th 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

54 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 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 →
$70,000,000
  • Match 51≈ 0.87 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball13≈ 11 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4207≈ 279 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball580≈ 703 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,119≈ 15k by chance$7.00
  • Match 314,279≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball105,023≈ 111k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball266,053≈ 266k 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 — 14,279 winners, 19% fewer than the 18k 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 Ball266,053$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball105,023$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,119$7.00
    Match 314,279$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball580$100
    Match 4207$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball13$50,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$70,000,000