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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 1 March 2018

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 16
  3. 17
  4. 24
  5. 30
  6. 39
  7. 8

JackpotA$10,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 261 of 267 under them

← 2018-02-22All recent draws2018-03-08 →

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 feed8 16 17 24 30 39 + 829 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 260 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 March 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

68oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 68 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 86% of every possible ticket.

  • sum66th
  • odd21th
  • low50th
  • widest gap19th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread56th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each

843times
1635times
1741times
2446times
30

Prize breakdown · 2018-03-01

  • Paid outA$6Mto 276k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$10M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$1.3M
  • 719%A$1.1M
  • 843%A$2.6M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$994.9K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$10,000,000
  2. 2

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32times
3932times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each

812times

Every number was expected about that many times after 260 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 6 numbers (8, 16, 17, 24) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 August 2016 — its closest relative in 260 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 44% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 February 2018): 16 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 8 repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

134

The numbers add up to 134 — the 65th 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

17 had not appeared for 14 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
7
A$46,193
  • 353A$6,383
  • 4994A$190
  • 52,410A$59.85
  • 633,761A$37.30
  • 742,346A$26.65
  • 8196,510A$13.15
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$10,000,000
    27A$46,193
    353A$6,383
    4994A$190
    52,410A$59.85
    633,761A$37.30
    742,346A$26.65
    8196,510A$13.15