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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 28 April 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 20
  5. 24
  6. 31
  7. 1

JackpotA$25,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 165 of 267 under them

← 2016-04-21All recent draws2016-05-05 →

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 feed2 8 9 20 24 31 + 129 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 164 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 April 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.

  • sum14th
  • odd21th
  • low79th
  • widest gap38th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread43th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each

221times
825times
926times
2033times
24

Prize breakdown · 2016-04-28

  • Paid outA$9.6Mto 415k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$25M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$2M
  • 719%A$1.8M
  • 843%A$4.1M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$1.6M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$25,000,000
  2. 2

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26times
3123times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

18times

Every number was expected about that many times after 164 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 3 of 6 numbers (2, 9, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 January 2016 — its closest relative in 164 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 April 2016): 8 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

94

The numbers add up to 94 — the 14th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

24 had not appeared for 25 draws. A number waits about 7 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 2.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
9
A$57,548
  • 381A$6,689
  • 41,615A$188
  • 53,554A$65.00
  • 650,448A$39.95
  • 770,570A$25.65
  • 8289,160A$14.35
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$25,000,000
    29A$57,548
    381A$6,689
    41,615A$188
    53,554A$65.00
    650,448A$39.95
    770,570A$25.65
    8289,160A$14.35