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Powerball Double Play · draw

Monday, 16 January 2023

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 37
  2. 40
  3. 46
  4. 54
  5. 59
  6. 15

The crowdHeld 5% 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 220 of 806 under them

← 2023-01-14All recent draws2023-01-18 →

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 feed37 40 46 54 59 + 1529 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 January 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

28oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.

  • sum92th
  • odd33th
  • low1th
  • widest gap1th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread3th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 16 of each

3719times
4016times
4614times
5414times
59

Prize breakdown · 2023-01-16

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$6.3Mto 634k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball18%$1.1M
  • Match 1 plus Powerball16%$1.0M
  • Match 0 plus Powerball39%$2.4M
  • 7 other tiers27%$1.7M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0

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18times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

1510times

Every number was expected about that many times after 219 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 (37, 40) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 December 2022 — its closest relative in 219 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 January 2023): 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

236

The numbers add up to 236 — the 92th 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

59 had not appeared for 26 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 62% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.05 by chance
$416,900,000
  • Match 51≈ 1.4 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in14≈ 17 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4325≈ 432 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in1,031≈ 1.1k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in22,403≈ 23k by chance$7.00
  • Match 319,623≈ 27k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in172,791≈ 172k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in411,852≈ 412k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 4101$300
  • Match 36,006$21.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 19,623 winners, 28% fewer than the 27k 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$416,900,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball10$50,000
    Match 4325$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball798$100
    Match 319,623$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball17,073$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball131,189$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball313,493$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)101$300
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)233$300
    Match 3 (with Power Play)6,006$21.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)5,330$21.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)41,602$12.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)98,359$12.00
    Totals634,147—