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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 13 October 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 6
  3. 8
  4. 13
  5. 31
  6. 36
  7. 15

JackpotA$25,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 189 of 267 under them

← 2016-10-06All recent draws2016-10-20 →

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 feed2 6 8 13 31 36 + 1529 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 188 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 13 October 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.

  • sum16th
  • odd21th
  • low79th
  • widest gap89th
  • neighbours21th
  • spread75th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each

225times
627times
832times
1331times
31

Prize breakdown · 2016-10-13

  • Paid outA$34.9Mto 442k winning lines
  • 12 winnersA$12.5M

Where the money went

  • 172%A$25M
  • 66.0%A$2.1M
  • 812%A$4.3M
  • 5 other tiers10%A$3.5M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 12A$12,500,000

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30times
3627times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

1511times

Every number was expected about that many times after 188 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 4 of 6 numbers (6, 8, 13, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 July 2016 — its closest relative in 188 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 34% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (6 October 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

96

The numbers add up to 96 — the 15th 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

6 had not appeared for 13 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 14% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
2
6
A$89,252
  • 382A$6,832
  • 41,717A$182
  • 53,730A$64.05
  • 653,377A$39.05
  • 773,234A$25.55
  • 8309,508A$13.85
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    12A$12,500,000
    26A$89,252
    382A$6,832
    41,717A$182
    53,730A$64.05
    653,377A$39.05
    773,234A$25.55
    8309,508A$13.85