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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Powerball Double Play · draw
ResultPowerball Double Play
Jackpot$10,000,000
The crowdHeld 75% 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 796 of 796 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 22 Sept 2026, 10:15 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 September 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 58 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 795 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 →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (9, 26, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 January 2024 — its closest relative in 795 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 77% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 September 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 86 — the 2th 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 →26 had not appeared for 25 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 →A line like this is played about 2.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 17% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 3,224 winners, 75% more than the 1.8k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 plus Powerball | 0 | $10,000,000 |
| Match 5 | 0 | $500,000 |
| Match 4 plus Powerball | 1 | $50,000 |
| Match 4 | 61 | $500 |
| Match 3 plus Powerball | 126 | $500 |
| Match 3 | 3,224 | $20.00 |
| Match 2 plus Powerball | 1,966 | $20.00 |
| Match 1 plus Powerball | 12,714 | $10.00 |
| Match 0 plus Powerball | 27,852 | $7.00 |