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Powerball Double Play · draw

Saturday, 27 August 2022

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 18
  3. 43
  4. 49
  5. 51
  6. 6

The crowdHeld 10% 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 159 of 806 under them

← 2022-08-24All recent draws2022-08-29 →

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 feed16 18 43 49 51 + 629 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 27 August 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

70oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 92% of every possible ticket.

  • sum52th
  • odd65th
  • low33th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread18th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each

1613times
1811times
4313times
499times
51

Prize breakdown · 2022-08-27

  • Lines in play≈ 12Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$5.1Mto 482k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 520%$1.0M
  • Match 4 plus Powerball18%$900.0K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball38%$1.9M
  • 7 other tiers25%$1.3M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.04 by chance

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13times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

63times

Every number was expected about that many times after 158 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 (49, 51) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 June 2022 — its closest relative in 158 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 August 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

177

The numbers add up to 177 — the 51th 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

49 had not appeared for 34 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 →
$116,500,000
  • Match 51≈ 1.0 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in10≈ 13 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4214≈ 334 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in780≈ 842 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in16,043≈ 17k by chance$7.00
  • Match 314,157≈ 21k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in127,666≈ 133k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in318,279≈ 318k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 469$300
  • Match 34,617$21.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈12M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 14,157 winners, 33% fewer than the 21k 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$116,500,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball6$50,000
    Match 4214$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball562$100
    Match 314,157$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball12,027$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball95,565$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball237,487$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)4$150,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)69$300
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)218$300
    Match 3 (with Power Play)4,617$21.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)4,016$21.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)32,101$12.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)80,792$12.00
    Totals481,836—