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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 16 July 2009

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 11
  2. 17
  3. 20
  4. 31
  5. 40
  6. 20

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 29 of 218 under them

← 2009-07-09All recent draws2009-07-23 →

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 feed11 17 20 31 40 + 2029 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 28 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 16 July 2009 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

69oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 93% of every possible ticket.

  • sum56th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap22th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread39th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

114times
171time
203times
311time
40

Prize breakdown · 2009-07-16

  • Paid outA$7.4Mto 128k winning lines
  • 237 winnersA$68.2K

Where the money went

  • 234%A$2.5M
  • 316%A$1.2M
  • 631%A$2.3M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$1.4M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100kPrize each
  1. 237A$68,204
  2. 3

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

200times

Every number was expected about that many times after 28 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 (11, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 9 April 2009 — its closest relative in 28 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 92% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (9 July 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

119

The numbers add up to 119 — the 55th 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

40 had not appeared for 20 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 →
175
A$6,595
  • 48,255A$109
  • 58,904A$57.10
  • 6110,133A$20.80
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10—
    237A$68,204
    3175A$6,595
    48,255A$109
    58,904A$57.10
    6110,133A$20.80