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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 12 September 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 28
  3. 48
  4. 63
  5. 64
  6. 24

Jackpot$131,500,000

The crowdHeld 12% 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 307 of 1,432 under them

← 2018-09-08All recent draws2018-09-15 →

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 feed6 28 48 63 64 + 2429 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 September 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 36% of every possible ticket.

  • sum78th
  • odd10th
  • low33th
  • widest gap46th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread81th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

618times
2833times
4818times
6328times
64

Prize breakdown · 2018-09-12

  • Lines in play≈ 10Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.1Mto 399k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 533%$1.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball14%$430.6K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball34%$1.0M
  • 5 other tiers19%$583.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.03 by chance

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33times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each

2416times

Every number was expected about that many times after 306 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 (28, 48) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 15 August 2018 — its closest relative in 306 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (8 September 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

209

The numbers add up to 209 — the 78th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 63–64. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

64 had not appeared for 14 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 37% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$131,500,000
  • Match 51≈ 0.86 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball6≈ 11 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4216≈ 275 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball605≈ 693 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,437≈ 14k by chance$7.00
  • Match 315,289≈ 17k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball107,648≈ 109k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball262,044≈ 262k 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 plus Bonus Ball — 605 winners, 13% fewer than the 693 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 Ball262,044$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball107,648$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,437$7.00
    Match 315,289$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball605$100
    Match 4216$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball6$50,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$131,500,000