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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 26 January 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 23
  4. 36
  5. 38
  6. 40
  7. 2

JackpotA$6,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 204 of 267 under them

← 2017-01-19All recent draws2017-02-02 →

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 feed6 8 23 36 38 40 + 229 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 203 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 26 January 2017 — 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 18% of every possible ticket.

  • sum85th
  • odd5th
  • low21th
  • widest gap74th
  • neighbours21th
  • spread75th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 30 of each

630times
837times
2335times
3632times
38

Prize breakdown · 2017-01-26

  • Paid outA$4.3Mto 180k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$6M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$905.4K
  • 719%A$812.6K
  • 843%A$1.9M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$715.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$6,000,000
  2. 2

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29times
4023times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

214times

Every number was expected about that many times after 203 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, 23, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 January 2017 — its closest relative in 203 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 37% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (19 January 2017): 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

151

The numbers add up to 151 — the 85th 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

40 had not appeared for 9 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 22% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
1
A$232,622
  • 339A$6,240
  • 4777A$175
  • 51,457A$71.25
  • 621,378A$42.35
  • 730,210A$26.90
  • 8126,428A$14.70
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$6,000,000
    21A$232,622
    339A$6,240
    4777A$175
    51,457A$71.25
    621,378A$42.35
    730,210A$26.90
    8126,428A$14.70