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Powerball Double Play · draw

Monday, 31 January 2022

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 28
  2. 31
  3. 33
  4. 38
  5. 61
  6. 5

Jackpot$114,700,000

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 70 of 806 under them

← 2022-01-29All recent draws2022-02-02 →

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 feed28 31 33 38 61 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 31 January 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

69oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 90% of every possible ticket.

  • sum64th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread14th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each

286times
318times
335times
384times
61

Prize breakdown · 2022-01-31

  • Lines in play≈ 8.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.5Mto 321k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 529%$1.0M
  • Match 1 plus Powerball15%$511.5K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball37%$1.3M
  • 7 other tiers20%$695.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.03 by chance

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4times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

52times

Every number was expected about that many times after 69 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 (33, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 January 2022 — its closest relative in 69 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 January 2022): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 5 repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

191

The numbers add up to 191 — the 64th 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

61 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 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 44% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$114,700,000
  • Match 51≈ 0.69 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in5≈ 8.9 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4129≈ 222 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in489≈ 560 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in10,598≈ 12k by chance$7.00
  • Match 39,742≈ 14k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in85,297≈ 88k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in211,820≈ 212k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 453$300
  • Match 33,093$21.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈8.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,742 winners, 30% fewer than the 14k 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$114,700,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball4$50,000
    Match 4129$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball370$100
    Match 39,742$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball7,960$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball64,005$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball158,423$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)1$150,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)53$300
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)119$300
    Match 3 (with Power Play)3,093$21.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)2,638$21.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)21,292$12.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)53,397$12.00
    Totals321,227—