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Powerball Double Play · draw

Wednesday, 20 October 2021

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 4
  3. 31
  4. 37
  5. 64
  6. 24

Jackpot$73,600,000

The crowdHeld 7% 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 26 of 806 under them

← 2021-10-18All recent draws2021-10-23 →

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 feed1 4 31 37 64 + 2429 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 October 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

55oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 55 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 54% of every possible ticket.

  • sum20th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap68th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread93th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

13times
42times
313times
372times
64

Prize breakdown · 2021-10-20

  • Lines in play≈ 9.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.7Mto 384k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 527%$1.0M
  • Match 1 plus Powerball15%$536.4K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball34%$1.3M
  • 7 other tiers24%$869.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.03 by chance

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1time
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

242times

Every number was expected about that many times after 25 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 2 of 5 numbers (1, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 9 October 2021 — its closest relative in 25 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 63% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 October 2021): 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

137

The numbers add up to 137 — the 19th 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

64 had not appeared for 17 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 29% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$73,600,000
  • Match 51≈ 0.81 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in8≈ 10 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4165≈ 260 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in664≈ 655 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in13,978≈ 14k by chance$7.00
  • Match 311,176≈ 16k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in105,985≈ 103k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in247,630≈ 248k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 462$200
  • Match 33,977$14.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈9.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 11,176 winners, 32% fewer than the 16k 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$73,600,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball6$50,000
    Match 4165$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball499$100
    Match 311,176$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball10,281$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball77,860$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball180,874$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)2$100,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)62$200
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)165$200
    Match 3 (with Power Play)3,977$14.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)3,697$14.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)28,125$8.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)66,756$8.00
    Totals383,646—