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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$484,800,000
The crowdHeld 15% more 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 1,417 of 1,437 under them
Sources2 independent sources agree, 1 official. A later report from Secondary 4 agrees but has not been cross-checked yet. Settled 8 Oct 2026, 07:07 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 7 October 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 27 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 103 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,416 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 (13, 14, 21) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 June 2026 — its closest relative in 1,416 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 92% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 October 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 124 — the 12th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →13 had not appeared for 20 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 28% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈14M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 21,730 winners, 12% fewer than the 25k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 plus Powerball | 0 | $484,800,000 |
| Match 5 | 0 | $1,000,000 |
| Match 4 plus Powerball | 8 | $50,000 |
| Match 4 | 359 | $100 |
| Match 3 plus Powerball | 773 | $100 |
| Match 3 | 21,730 | $7.00 |
| Match 2 plus Powerball | 16,294 | $7.00 |
| Match 1 plus Powerball | 124,397 | $4.00 |
| Match 0 plus Powerball | 285,458 | $4.00 |
| Match 2 | 0 | — |
| Match 5 (with Power Play) | 0 | $2,000,000 |
| Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 3 | $100,000 |
| Match 4 (with Power Play) | 99 | $200 |
| Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 256 | $200 |
| Match 3 (with Power Play) | 6,974 | $14.00 |
| Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 5,095 | $14.00 |
| Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 38,399 | $8.00 |
| Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play) | 87,112 | $8.00 |