What stood out
Interesting, not statistically unusual
These numbers rarely travel together
5 of their 10 possible pairs had appeared together less often than expected.
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Powerball results for
Wed, May 13, 2026
Winning numbers
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- Jackpot annuity
- $69.9M
- Cash value
- $31.6M
- Multiplier
- Power Play 2x
- Drawing date
- Wed, May 13, 2026
More from this drawing
Three ways to read the result.
#56 did it again
Interesting, not statistically unusual#56 appeared in back-to-back drawings.
Explore #56#56 has been showing up more lately
Unusual#56 appeared 72% more often recently than over the last 500 drawings.
Explore #56Draw structure
The shape of the winning set.
These values describe the result. They do not imply anything about a future drawing.
- Number span
- 45 From lowest to highest
- Main-number sum
- 228 All five main numbers
- Odd / even
- 2 / 3 Composition of the set
- Largest gap
- 21 Between adjacent numbers
Complete assessment
What the historical checks found.
WTN checks return timing, recent pace, historical relationships, and draw structure. The label calibrates the evidence; it does not predict what comes next.
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The winning numbers had an ordinary mix of shared history.
Interesting, not statistically unusual5 of the draw's 10 pairings had historically co-occurred below 70% of their individual baseline rate. The pattern remained unusual in 2 of 4 tested history windows.
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56 appeared in back-to-back drawings.
Interesting, not statistically unusualIt also appeared in the previous drawing. Only 6% of 56's historical return intervals were this short. Because WTN checks every winning number after each draw, the repeat did not clear the statistical unusualness threshold.
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Opposite recent histories converged.
Unusual67 had been appearing 29% below its 500-draw pace while 56 was running 72% above it.
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The draw's spacing stayed within normal history.
Within normal historyIts most distinctive structural measure was numerical center, but even that measure did not reach the engine's unusual-event threshold compared with similar historical draws.
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Sources and method
Confirmed from an authoritative public record.
Source record: New York State Open Data .
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