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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 22 September 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 24
  2. 61
  3. 63
  4. 64
  5. 69
  6. 18

Jackpot$179,400,000

The crowdHeld 13% 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 310 of 1,430 under them

← 2018-09-19All recent draws2018-09-26 →

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 feed24 61 63 64 69 + 1829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 September 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

36oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 36 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.

  • sum99th
  • odd65th
  • low10th
  • widest gap92th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread41th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

2421times
6132times
6329times
6434times
69

Prize breakdown · 2018-09-22

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$2.7Mto 491k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 26lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19%$500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball19%$498.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball50%$1.3M
  • 4 other tiers13%$346.0K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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32times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each

188times

Every number was expected about that many times after 309 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 (61, 64, 69) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 20 December 2017 — its closest relative in 309 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 43% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (19 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

281

The numbers add up to 281 — the 99th 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

69 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 42% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.04 by chance
$179,400,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.1 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball10≈ 14 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4310≈ 347 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball714≈ 875 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,663≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  • Match 319,132≈ 22k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball124,629≈ 138k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball330,961≈ 331k 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 — 714 winners, 18% fewer than the 875 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 Ball330,961$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball124,629$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,663$7.00
    Match 319,132$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball714$100
    Match 4310$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball10$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$179,400,000