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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 41
  2. 53
  3. 59
  4. 63
  5. 66
  6. 3

Jackpot$232,400,000

The crowdHeld 21% 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 313 of 1,430 under them

← 2018-09-29All recent draws2018-10-06 →

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 feed41 53 59 63 66 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 October 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

20oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 20 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.

  • sum100th
  • odd89th
  • low1th
  • widest gap7th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread5th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each

4128times
5322times
5922times
6330times
66

Prize breakdown · 2018-10-03

  • Lines in play≈ 17Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$4.6Mto 628k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 26lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.06

Where the money went

  • Match 522%$1.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18%$800.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball38%$1.7M
  • 5 other tiers23%$1.0M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.06 by chance

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22times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each

312times

Every number was expected about that many times after 312 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 (41, 53, 63) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 June 2016 — its closest relative in 312 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 43% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 September 2018): 59 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

282

The numbers add up to 282 — the 99th 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

41 had not appeared for 10 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 46% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$232,400,000
  • Match 51≈ 1.4 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball16≈ 18 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4345≈ 453 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball854≈ 1.1k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,131≈ 24k by chance$7.00
  • Match 322,677≈ 29k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball152,978≈ 180k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball431,624≈ 432k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈17M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 854 winners, 25% fewer than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball431,624$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball152,978$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,131$7.00
    Match 322,677$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball854$100
    Match 4345$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball16$50,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$232,400,000