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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Powerball · draw
ResultPowerball
Jackpot$252,700,000
The crowdHeld 95% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015draw 1,407 of 1,437 under them
Sources3 independent sources agree, 2 official. Settled 15 Sept 2026, 15:55 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 14 September 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 43 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 26% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 102 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,406 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 →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (19, 20, 61) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 12 March 2022 — its closest relative in 1,406 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 92% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 September 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 224 — the 86th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →20 had not appeared for 17 draws. A number waits about 14 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →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 38% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈10M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 13,678 winners, 96% fewer than the 367k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 + Powerball | 0 | $252,700,000 |
| Match 5 | 1 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 4 + Powerball | 4 | $50,000 |
| Match 4 | 170 | $100 |
| Match 3 + Powerball | 509 | $100 |
| Match 3 | 12,078 | $7.00 |
| Match 2 + Powerball | 10,416 | $7.00 |
| Match 1 + Powerball | 82,493 | $4.00 |
| Match 0 + Powerball | 204,249 | $4.00 |
| Match 2 | 13,678 | $8.00 |
| Match 5 (with Power Play) | 1 | $2,000,000 |
| Match 4 + Powerball (with Power Play) | 2 | $100,000 |
| Match 4 (with Power Play) | 58 | $200 |
| Match 3 + Powerball (with Power Play) | 156 | $200 |
| Match 3 (with Power Play) | 3,889 | $14.00 |
| Match 2 + Powerball (with Power Play) | 3,324 | $14.00 |
| Match 1 + Powerball (with Power Play) | 26,014 | $8.00 |
| Match 0 + Powerball (with Power Play) | 64,540 | $8.00 |
| Totals | 421,582 | — |