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Powerball Double Play · draw

Saturday, 2 March 2024

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 18
  2. 31
  3. 36
  4. 43
  5. 61
  6. 10

The crowdHeld 15% 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 396 of 806 under them

← 2024-02-28All recent draws2024-03-04 →

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 feed18 31 36 43 61 + 1029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 2 March 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

68oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 68 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 89% of every possible ticket.

  • sum62th
  • odd65th
  • low33th
  • widest gap27th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread36th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 29 of each

1828times
3134times
3623times
4322times
61

Prize breakdown · 2024-03-02

  • Lines in play≈ 22Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$10.8Mto 923k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.08

Where the money went

  • Match 537%$4.0M
  • Match 4 plus Powerball15%$1.7M
  • Match 0 plus Powerball27%$2.9M
  • 7 other tiers21%$2.3M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.08 by chance

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28times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 15 of each

1011times

Every number was expected about that many times after 395 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 (18, 61) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 21 October 2023 — its closest relative in 395 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (28 February 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

189

The numbers add up to 189 — the 62th 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

43 had not appeared for 30 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 44% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$442,100,000
  • Match 54≈ 1.9 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in29≈ 25 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4622≈ 616 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in1,844≈ 1.6k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in35,275≈ 32k by chance$7.00
  • Match 334,026≈ 39k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in253,874≈ 245k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in586,841≈ 587k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 4174$200
  • Match 310,657$14.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈22M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Powerball — 1,844 winners, 19% more than the 1.6k 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$442,100,000
    Match 54$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball25$50,000
    Match 4622$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball1,395$100
    Match 334,026$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball26,952$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball193,020$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball447,658$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)4$100,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)174$200
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)449$200
    Match 3 (with Power Play)10,657$14.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)8,323$14.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)60,854$8.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)139,183$8.00
    Totals923,346—