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Powerball Double Play · draw

Saturday, 4 May 2024

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 8
  3. 27
  4. 63
  5. 66
  6. 26

The crowdHeld 5% 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 423 of 806 under them

← 2024-05-01All recent draws2024-05-06 →

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 feed1 8 27 63 66 + 2629 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 May 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 50% of every possible ticket.

  • sum41th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap91th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread97th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 31 of each

141times
820times
2729times
6343times
66

Prize breakdown · 2024-05-04

  • Lines in play≈ 17Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$4.7Mto 674k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.06

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball19%$900.0K
  • Match 1 plus Powerball20%$926.0K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball47%$2.2M
  • 6 other tiers14%$646.1K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 16 of each

2617times

Every number was expected about that many times after 422 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 (1, 8, 66) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 October 2023 — its closest relative in 422 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 54% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 May 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

165

The numbers add up to 165 — the 41th 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

27 had not appeared for 49 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 26% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.06 by chance
$200,300,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.4 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in17≈ 18 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4317≈ 458 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in1,111≈ 1.2k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in24,355≈ 24k by chance$7.00
  • Match 320,514≈ 29k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in184,576≈ 182k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in436,462≈ 436k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 499$200
  • Match 36,975$14.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈17M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 20,514 winners, 29% fewer than the 29k 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$200,300,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball16$50,000
    Match 4317$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball834$100
    Match 320,514$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball18,054$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball137,644$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball326,376$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)99$200
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)277$200
    Match 3 (with Power Play)6,975$14.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)6,301$14.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)46,932$8.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)110,086$8.00
    Totals674,426—