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Powerball Double Play · draw

Saturday, 12 March 2022

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 16
  3. 40
  4. 49
  5. 50
  6. 15

Jackpot$117,200,000

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 Aug 2021draw 87 of 806 under them

← 2022-03-09All recent draws2022-03-14 →

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 16 40 49 50 + 1529 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 March 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

61oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 70% of every possible ticket.

  • sum36th
  • odd10th
  • low33th
  • widest gap55th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread44th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

47times
164times
404times
496times
50

Prize breakdown · 2022-03-12

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$4.0Mto 559k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball23%$900.0K
  • Match 1 plus Powerball19%$752.4K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball46%$1.8M
  • 6 other tiers13%$516.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0

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8times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

151time

Every number was expected about that many times after 86 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 (4, 40, 49) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 September 2021 — its closest relative in 86 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 15% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (9 March 2022): 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

159

The numbers add up to 159 — the 36th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 49–50. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

40 had not appeared for 19 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 38% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.05 by chance
$117,200,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.2 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in15≈ 15 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4267≈ 383 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in950≈ 966 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in19,039≈ 20k by chance$7.00
  • Match 316,755≈ 24k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in151,252≈ 152k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in365,415≈ 365k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 473$200
  • Match 35,423$14.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈14M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 16,755 winners, 31% fewer than the 24k 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$117,200,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball12$50,000
    Match 4267$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball733$100
    Match 316,755$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball14,448$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball114,403$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball276,464$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)3$100,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)73$200
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)217$200
    Match 3 (with Power Play)5,423$14.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)4,591$14.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)36,849$8.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)88,951$8.00
    Totals559,189—