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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 1 September 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 11
  3. 13
  4. 14
  5. 18
  6. 22
  7. 9

JackpotA$3,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 183 of 267 under them

← 2016-08-25All recent draws2016-09-08 →

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 feed3 11 13 14 18 22 + 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 182 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 1 September 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

38oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 19% of every possible ticket.

  • sum6th
  • odd50th
  • low95th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread6th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

326times
1120times
1329times
1425times
18

Prize breakdown · 2016-09-01

  • Paid outA$3.7Mto 178k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$3M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$779.1K
  • 719%A$698.4K
  • 843%A$1.6M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$615.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$3,000,000
  2. 2

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28times
2224times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

99times

Every number was expected about that many times after 182 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 (3, 11, 14) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 June 2014 — its closest relative in 182 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (25 August 2016): 22 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

81

The numbers add up to 81 — the 5th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

11 had not appeared for 11 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
2
A$100,027
  • 343A$4,867
  • 4806A$145
  • 51,590A$56.15
  • 622,070A$35.30
  • 730,566A$22.85
  • 8123,227A$13.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$3,000,000
    22A$100,027
    343A$4,867
    4806A$145
    51,590A$56.15
    622,070A$35.30
    730,566A$22.85
    8123,227A$13.00