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Powerball Double Play · draw

Monday, 20 May 2024

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 38
  3. 39
  4. 41
  5. 69
  6. 25

The crowdHeld 16% 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 430 of 806 under them

← 2024-05-18All recent draws2024-05-22 →

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 feed5 38 39 41 69 + 2529 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 May 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

30oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 30 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 8% of every possible ticket.

  • sum65th
  • odd89th
  • low10th
  • widest gap86th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread95th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 31 of each

525times
3828times
3945times
4136times
69

Prize breakdown · 2024-05-20

  • Lines in play≈ 8.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$2.3Mto 325k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball20%$450.0K
  • Match 1 plus Powerball20%$450.9K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball48%$1.1M
  • 6 other tiers13%$295.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.03 by chance

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21times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

2516times

Every number was expected about that many times after 429 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 (5, 38, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 October 2022 — its closest relative in 429 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 54% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 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

192

The numbers add up to 192 — the 64th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 38–39. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

5 had not appeared for 37 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 51% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$88,500,000
  • Match 50≈ 0.70 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in8≈ 8.9 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4123≈ 223 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in494≈ 563 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in11,180≈ 12k by chance$7.00
  • Match 38,562≈ 14k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in88,457≈ 89k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in212,908≈ 213k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 468$200
  • Match 33,336$14.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈8.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,562 winners, 39% fewer than the 14k 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$88,500,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball7$50,000
    Match 4123$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball357$100
    Match 38,562$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball8,079$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball64,189$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball155,010$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)68$200
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)137$200
    Match 3 (with Power Play)3,336$14.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)3,101$14.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)24,268$8.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)57,898$8.00
    Totals325,136—