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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 27 October 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. 19
  5. 27
  6. 4

Jackpot$343,900,000

The crowdHeld 34% more 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 320 of 1,430 under them

← 2018-10-24All recent draws2018-10-31 →

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 feed8 12 13 19 27 + 429 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 27 October 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

18oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 18 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum1th
  • odd65th
  • low99th
  • widest gap1th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread2th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each

818times
1224times
1320times
1923times
27

Prize breakdown · 2018-10-27

  • Lines in play≈ 73Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$722.5Mto 3.0M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2 winnerschance said 0.25

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball95%$687.8M
  • Match 51.8%$13.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball1.1%$7.8M
  • 6 other tiers1.9%$14.0M
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball

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25times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each

410times

Every number was expected about that many times after 319 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 (8, 13, 27) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 25 November 2017 — its closest relative in 319 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 44% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 October 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

79

The numbers add up to 79 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 12–13. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

12 had not appeared for 21 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 2.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 17% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
2≈ 0.25 by chance
$343,900,000
  • Match 513≈ 6.2 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball155≈ 79 by chance$50,000
  • Match 43,265≈ 2.0k by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball7,103≈ 5.0k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball122,144≈ 103k by chance$7.00
  • Match 3167,361≈ 125k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball839,256≈ 788k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball1,892,179≈ 1.9M by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈73M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 3,265 winners, 64% more than the 2.0k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 Ball1,892,179$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball839,256$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball122,144$7.00
    Match 3167,361$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball7,103$100
    Match 43,265$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball155$50,000
    Match 513$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2$343,900,000