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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 28 May 2009

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 9
  2. 15
  3. 18
  4. 29
  5. 33
  6. 24

JackpotA$6,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 22 of 218 under them

← 2009-05-21All recent draws2009-06-04 →

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 feed9 15 18 29 33 + 2429 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 21 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 May 2009 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

51oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 48% of every possible ticket.

  • sum35th
  • odd89th
  • low65th
  • widest gap22th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread20th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

91time
153times
183times
292times
33

Prize breakdown · 2009-05-28

  • Paid outA$8.4Mto 39k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$6M

Where the money went

  • 172%A$6M
  • 210%A$805.1K
  • 68.7%A$730.7K
  • 3 other tiers10%A$817.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 11A$6,000,000
  2. 2

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2times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

242times

Every number was expected about that many times after 21 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 (15, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 March 2009 — its closest relative in 21 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 85% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 May 2009): 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

104

The numbers add up to 104 — the 34th 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

33 had not appeared for 19 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 1.1× 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 →
62
A$12,986
  • 365A$5,665
  • 42,628A$109
  • 53,453A$47.00
  • 632,841A$22.25
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$6,000,000
    262A$12,986
    365A$5,665
    42,628A$109
    53,453A$47.00
    632,841A$22.25