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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Powerball · draw
ResultPowerball
Jackpot$320,600,000
The crowdHeld 8% 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 830 of 1,430 under them
Sources3 independent sources agree, 2 official. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 7 January 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 19% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 60 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 829 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 →Shares 2 of 5 numbers (35, 45) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 December 2022 — its closest relative in 829 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (4 January 2023): 67 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 227 — the 88th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 35–36, 44–45. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →35 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 →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 →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈20M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,583 winners, 16% more than the 1.4k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 514,535 | $4.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 205,916 | $4.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 26,337 | $7.00 |
| Match 3 | 31,307 | $7.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,583 | $100 |
| Match 4 | 489 | $100 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 21 | $50,000 |
| Match 5 | 1 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $320,600,000 |