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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 17 April 2014

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 11
  3. 16
  4. 20
  5. 23
  6. 29
  7. 9

JackpotA$3,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 59 of 267 under them

← 2014-04-10All recent draws2014-04-24 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed8 11 16 20 23 29 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 58 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 April 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

45oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 30% of every possible ticket.

  • sum28th
  • odd50th
  • low79th
  • widest gap3th
  • neighbours21th
  • spread10th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

88times
115times
1611times
2011times
23

Prize breakdown · 2014-04-17

  • Paid outA$3.8Mto 183k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$3M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$796K
  • 719%A$714.2K
  • 843%A$1.6M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$629.1K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$3,000,000
  2. 2

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11times
2916times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

92times

Every number was expected about that many times after 58 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 6 numbers (8, 16, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 November 2013 — its closest relative in 58 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 86% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (10 April 2014): 29 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

107

The numbers add up to 107 — the 27th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. No two numbers side by side. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

23 had not appeared for 20 draws. A number waits about 7 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 2.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
5
A$40,893
  • 354A$3,961
  • 4941A$127
  • 51,630A$55.95
  • 622,486A$35.40
  • 731,957A$22.35
  • 8125,931A$13.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
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    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$3,000,000
    25A$40,893
    354A$3,961
    4941A$127
    51,630A$55.95
    622,486A$35.40
    731,957A$22.35
    8125,931A$13.00