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Powerball Double Play · draw

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 23
  3. 50
  4. 53
  5. 66
  6. 14

The crowdHeld 4% 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 482 of 806 under them

← 2024-09-16All recent draws2024-09-21 →

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 feed16 23 50 53 66 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 September 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

67oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 67 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 86% of every possible ticket.

  • sum77th
  • odd33th
  • low33th
  • widest gap68th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread56th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 35 of each

1636times
2344times
5035times
5336times
66

Prize breakdown · 2024-09-18

  • Lines in play≈ 12Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$6.3Mto 495k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball21%$1.4M
  • Match 1 plus Powerball16%$1.0M
  • Match 0 plus Powerball35%$2.2M
  • 7 other tiers28%$1.7M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0

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31times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 19 of each

1421times

Every number was expected about that many times after 481 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 (16, 23, 50) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 19 June 2024 — its closest relative in 481 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 58% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 September 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

208

The numbers add up to 208 — the 77th 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

23 had not appeared for 38 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 42% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.04 by chance
$176,300,000
  • Match 51≈ 1.0 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in12≈ 13 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4201≈ 329 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in1,032≈ 830 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in19,621≈ 17k by chance$7.00
  • Match 314,735≈ 21k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in139,709≈ 131k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in313,814≈ 314k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 480$400
  • Match 35,416$28.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈12M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 14,735 winners, 29% fewer than the 21k 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$176,300,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball7$50,000
    Match 4201$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball738$100
    Match 314,735$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball14,287$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball102,620$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball232,185$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)5$200,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)80$400
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)294$400
    Match 3 (with Power Play)5,416$28.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)5,334$28.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)37,089$16.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)81,629$16.00
    Totals494,621—