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Powerball Double Play · draw

Saturday, 6 May 2023

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 9
  3. 20
  4. 21
  5. 55
  6. 11

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 267 of 805 under them

← 2023-05-03All recent draws2023-05-08 →

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 feed1 9 20 21 55 + 1129 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 6 May 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 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum6th
  • odd89th
  • low89th
  • widest gap88th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread69th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 19 of each

128times
921times
2017times
2111times
55

Prize breakdown · 2023-05-06

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$2.9Mto 492k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 26lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball5.2%$150.0K
  • Match 1 plus Powerball22%$633.9K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball57%$1.6M
  • 6 other tiers16%$451.3K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.04 by chance

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19times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

1112times

Every number was expected about that many times after 266 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 (9, 20, 55) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 February 2022 — its closest relative in 266 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 38% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 May 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

106

The numbers add up to 106 — the 5th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

55 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 2.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 18% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$87,800,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.1 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in2≈ 14 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4218≈ 344 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in759≈ 867 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in16,026≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  • Match 314,932≈ 22k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in126,734≈ 137k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in328,078≈ 328k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 484$200
  • Match 35,193$14.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈13M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 14,932 winners, 31% fewer than the 22k 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$87,800,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball1$50,000
    Match 4218$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball561$100
    Match 314,932$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball12,087$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball94,991$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball245,697$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)1$100,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)84$200
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)198$200
    Match 3 (with Power Play)5,193$14.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)3,939$14.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)31,743$8.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)82,381$8.00
    Totals492,026—