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Powerball Double Play · draw

Saturday, 4 September 2021

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 40
  3. 42
  4. 49
  5. 54
  6. 24

Jackpot$366,000,000

The crowdHeld 2% 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 Aug 2021draw 6 of 806 under them

← 2021-09-01All recent draws2021-09-06 →

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 feed4 40 42 49 54 + 2429 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 September 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

49oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 38% of every possible ticket.

  • sum62th
  • odd10th
  • low10th
  • widest gap91th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread56th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

40times
400times
421time
490times
54

Prize breakdown · 2021-09-04

  • Lines in play≈ 22Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$11.3Mto 858k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.07

Where the money went

  • Match 526%$3.0M
  • Match 1 plus Powerball15%$1.6M
  • Match 0 plus Powerball37%$4.2M
  • 7 other tiers22%$2.5M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.07 by chance

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0times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

241time

Every number was expected about that many times after 5 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 1 of 5 numbers (42) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 August 2021 — its closest relative in 5 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 86% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 September 2021): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 24 repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

189

The numbers add up to 189 — the 62th 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

42 had not appeared for 2 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 50% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$366,000,000
  • Match 53≈ 1.9 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in23≈ 24 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4420≈ 593 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in1,416≈ 1.5k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in28,744≈ 31k by chance$7.00
  • Match 328,863≈ 37k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in224,886≈ 236k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in565,471≈ 565k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 4113$500
  • Match 37,564$35.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈22M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 420 winners, 29% fewer than the 593 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 5 plus Powerball0$366,000,000
    Match 53$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball22$50,000
    Match 4420$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball1,113$100
    Match 328,863$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball22,855$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball178,099$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball447,159$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)1$250,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)113$500
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)303$500
    Match 3 (with Power Play)7,564$35.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)5,889$35.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)46,787$20.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)118,312$20.00
    Totals857,503—