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Powerball Double Play · draw

Wednesday, 6 April 2022

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 29
  3. 56
  4. 57
  5. 58
  6. 2

Jackpot$247,500,000

The crowdHeld 9% 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 Aug 2021draw 98 of 810 under them

← 2022-04-04All recent draws2022-04-09 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed4 29 56 57 58 + 229 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 6 April 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 46% of every possible ticket.

  • sum74th
  • odd33th
  • low33th
  • widest gap68th
  • neighbours99th
  • spread69th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

48times
295times
564times
575times
58

Prize breakdown · 2022-04-06

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$4.6Mto 535k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball24%$1.1M
  • Match 1 plus Powerball18%$837.2K
  • Match 0 plus Powerball45%$2.1M
  • 6 other tiers12%$557.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0

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10times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

25times

Every number was expected about that many times after 97 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 2 of 5 numbers (29, 58) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 29 September 2021 — its closest relative in 97 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (4 April 2022): 58 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

204

The numbers add up to 204 — the 74th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 56–57, 57–58. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

29 had not appeared for 19 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 41% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.05 by chance
$247,500,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.2 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in14≈ 15 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4216≈ 369 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in836≈ 929 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in18,387≈ 19k by chance$7.00
  • Match 316,199≈ 23k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in143,516≈ 146k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in351,336≈ 351k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 462$300
  • Match 34,619$21.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈13M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 16,199 winners, 30% fewer than the 23k 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.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 5 plus Powerball0$247,500,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball10$50,000
    Match 4216$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball659$100
    Match 316,199$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball14,134$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball110,623$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball269,722$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)4$150,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)62$300
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)177$300
    Match 3 (with Power Play)4,619$21.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)4,253$21.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)32,893$12.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)81,614$12.00
    Totals535,185—