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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 28 January 2010

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 16
  3. 21
  4. 28
  5. 38
  6. 34

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 57 of 218 under them

← 2010-01-21All recent draws2010-02-04 →

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 feed14 16 21 28 38 + 3429 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 56 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 28 January 2010 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 52% of every possible ticket.

  • sum53th
  • odd9th
  • low65th
  • widest gap16th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread20th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

147times
164times
218times
284times
38

Prize breakdown · 2010-01-28

  • Paid outA$3.3Mto 54k winning lines
  • 221 winnersA$54.2K

Where the money went

  • 234%A$1.1M
  • 316%A$520.2K
  • 631%A$1M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$634.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100kPrize each
  1. 221A$54,166
  2. 3

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4times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

342times

Every number was expected about that many times after 56 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 2 of 5 numbers (16, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 May 2009 — its closest relative in 56 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 January 2010): nothing carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

117

The numbers add up to 117 — the 52th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. No two numbers side by side. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 16 draws. A number waits about 9 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
104
A$5,002
  • 43,745A$108
  • 54,197A$54.60
  • 646,124A$22.35
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10—
    221A$54,166
    3104A$5,002
    43,745A$108
    54,197A$54.60
    646,124A$22.35