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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 27 October 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 16
  3. 17
  4. 21
  5. 36
  6. 38
  7. 7

JackpotA$6,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 191 of 267 under them

← 2016-10-20All recent draws2016-11-03 →

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 16 17 21 36 38 + 729 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 190 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 27 October 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 73% of every possible ticket.

  • sum60th
  • odd21th
  • low50th
  • widest gap74th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread87th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 29 of each

226times
1628times
1729times
2125times
36

Prize breakdown · 2016-10-27

  • Paid outA$10.6Mto 205k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$6M

Where the money went

  • 157%A$6M
  • 69.1%A$967.9K
  • 819%A$2M
  • 5 other tiers15%A$1.6M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 11A$6,000,000
  2. 2

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28times
3826times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

77times

Every number was expected about that many times after 190 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 (16, 17, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 August 2016 — its closest relative in 190 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 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

130

The numbers add up to 130 — the 59th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

38 had not appeared for 12 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 20% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
3
A$82,838
  • 347A$5,532
  • 4605A$240
  • 51,827A$60.70
  • 624,659A$39.25
  • 729,210A$29.70
  • 8148,442A$13.40
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$6,000,000
    23A$82,838
    347A$5,532
    4605A$240
    51,827A$60.70
    624,659A$39.25
    729,210A$29.70
    8148,442A$13.40