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Powerball Double Play · draw

Monday, 8 January 2024

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 38
  3. 55
  4. 57
  5. 62
  6. 17

The crowdHeld 24% more 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 373 of 805 under them

← 2024-01-06All recent draws2024-01-10 →

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 feed3 38 55 57 62 + 1729 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 January 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 24% of every possible ticket.

  • sum82th
  • odd65th
  • low10th
  • widest gap89th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread84th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

323times
3824times
5529times
5728times
62

Prize breakdown · 2024-01-08

  • Lines in play≈ 7.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$2.7Mto 301k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.02

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball21%$550.0K
  • Match 1 plus Powerball20%$526.9K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball44%$1.2M
  • 6 other tiers16%$423.9K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.02 by chance

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29times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 14 of each

1714times

Every number was expected about that many times after 372 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 (38, 55) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 25 October 2023 — its closest relative in 372 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (6 January 2024): 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

215

The numbers add up to 215 — the 81th 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

38 had not appeared for 32 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 48% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$48,500,000
  • Match 50≈ 0.62 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in9≈ 7.9 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4175≈ 197 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in548≈ 497 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in11,846≈ 10k by chance$7.00
  • Match 311,182≈ 12k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in84,611≈ 78k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in188,109≈ 188k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 466$300
  • Match 34,477$21.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈7.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus Powerball — 11,846 winners, 15% more than the 10k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 5 plus Powerball0$48,500,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball8$50,000
    Match 4175$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball397$100
    Match 311,182$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball8,536$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball61,059$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball136,098$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)1$150,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)66$300
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)151$300
    Match 3 (with Power Play)4,477$21.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)3,310$21.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)23,552$12.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)52,011$12.00
    Totals301,023—