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Powerball Double Play · draw

Monday, 2 May 2022

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 23
  3. 29
  4. 37
  5. 65
  6. 12

The crowdHeld 7% more 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 109 of 806 under them

← 2022-04-30All recent draws2022-05-04 →

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 feed6 23 29 37 65 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 2 May 2022 — 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 53% of every possible ticket.

  • sum37th
  • odd89th
  • low65th
  • widest gap72th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread84th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

612times
239times
299times
3710times
65

Prize breakdown · 2022-05-02

  • Lines in play≈ 6.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.6Mto 263k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.02

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball31%$1.1M
  • Match 1 plus Powerball17%$600.6K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball40%$1.4M
  • 6 other tiers13%$454.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.02 by chance

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3times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

123times

Every number was expected about that many times after 108 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 (23, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 25 April 2022 — its closest relative in 108 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 April 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

160

The numbers add up to 160 — the 36th 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

37 had not appeared for 33 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 31% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$27,100,000
  • Match 50≈ 0.55 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in10≈ 7.1 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4130≈ 177 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in483≈ 446 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in9,733≈ 9.2k by chance$7.00
  • Match 38,639≈ 11k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in72,054≈ 70k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in168,688≈ 169k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 452$500
  • Match 33,232$35.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈6.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,639 winners, 23% fewer than the 11k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 5 plus Powerball0$27,100,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball7$50,000
    Match 4130$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball353$100
    Match 38,639$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball7,113$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball52,528$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball122,553$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)3$250,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)52$500
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)130$500
    Match 3 (with Power Play)3,232$35.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)2,620$35.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)19,526$20.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)46,135$20.00
    Totals263,021—