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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Powerball Double Play · draw
ResultPowerball Double Play
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 277 of 806 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 29 May 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 59% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 276 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 →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (12, 17, 65) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 April 2022 — its closest relative in 276 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 40% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (27 May 2023): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 145 — the 25th 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 →65 had not appeared for 47 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 →A line like this is played about 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 29% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈8.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,767 winners, 33% fewer than the 15k 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.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 plus Powerball | 0 | $225,900,000 |
| Match 5 | 0 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 4 plus Powerball | 5 | $50,000 |
| Match 4 | 154 | $100 |
| Match 3 plus Powerball | 396 | $100 |
| Match 3 | 9,767 | $7.00 |
| Match 2 plus Powerball | 8,396 | $7.00 |
| Match 1 plus Powerball | 66,400 | $4.00 |
| Match 0 plus Powerball | 164,116 | $4.00 |
| Match 5 (with Power Play) | 0 | $2,000,000 |
| Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 2 | $100,000 |
| Match 4 (with Power Play) | 51 | $200 |
| Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 103 | $200 |
| Match 3 (with Power Play) | 3,193 | $14.00 |
| Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 2,805 | $14.00 |
| Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 22,307 | $8.00 |
| Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 56,398 | $8.00 |
| Totals | 334,093 | — |