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Powerball Double Play · draw

Wednesday, 3 January 2024

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 17
  4. 31
  5. 56
  6. 23

The crowdHeld 21% 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 371 of 805 under them

← 2024-01-01All recent draws2024-01-06 →

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 feed8 9 17 31 56 + 2329 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 January 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 51% of every possible ticket.

  • sum11th
  • odd65th
  • low89th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread50th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

815times
928times
1723times
3131times
56

Prize breakdown · 2024-01-03

  • Lines in play≈ 11Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$8.1Mto 418k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 26lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball23%$1.9M
  • Match 1 plus Powerball18%$1.5M
  • Match 0 plus Powerball47%$3.8M
  • 6 other tiers11%$927.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.04 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 14 of each

2319times

Every number was expected about that many times after 370 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, 17, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 19 April 2023 — its closest relative in 370 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 49% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 January 2024): 31 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

121

The numbers add up to 121 — the 11th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 23 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 2.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 17% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$20,000,000
  • Match 50≈ 0.92 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in10≈ 12 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4166≈ 293 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in624≈ 738 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in13,550≈ 15k by chance$7.00
  • Match 310,630≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in109,390≈ 116k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in279,206≈ 279k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 445$1,000
  • Match 33,880$70.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈11M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 10,630 winners, 42% fewer than the 18k 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$20,000,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball7$50,000
    Match 4166$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball477$100
    Match 310,630$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball9,892$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball80,190$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball204,428$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)3$500,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)45$1,000
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)147$1,000
    Match 3 (with Power Play)3,880$70.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)3,658$70.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)29,200$40.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)74,778$40.00
    Totals417,501—