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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 26 January 2019

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 12
  3. 20
  4. 21
  5. 32
  6. 10

Jackpot$159,300,000

The crowdHeld 38% 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 346 of 1,430 under them

← 2019-01-23All recent draws2019-01-30 →

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 20 21 32 + 1029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 January 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

13oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 13 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 0% of every possible ticket.

  • sum3th
  • odd10th
  • low99th
  • widest gap5th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread4th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each

823times
1227times
2029times
2126times
32

Prize breakdown · 2019-01-26

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.3Mto 534k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball26%$850.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball18%$603.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball40%$1.3M
  • 4 other tiers17%$551.0K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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36times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each

1014times

Every number was expected about that many times after 345 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 (12, 20, 21) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 November 2017 — its closest relative in 345 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 47% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 January 2019): 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

93

The numbers add up to 93 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 had not appeared for 20 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 27% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.04 by chance
$159,300,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.1 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball17≈ 14 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4584≈ 346 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,277≈ 871 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball22,142≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  • Match 329,984≈ 22k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball150,809≈ 137k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball329,459≈ 329k 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 — 1,277 winners, 47% more than the 871 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 Ball329,459$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball150,809$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball22,142$7.00
    Match 329,984$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,277$100
    Match 4584$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball17$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$159,300,000