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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 6 May 2010

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 17
  3. 21
  4. 24
  5. 42
  6. 25

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 71 of 218 under them

← 2010-04-29All recent draws2010-05-13 →

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 feed8 17 21 24 42 + 2529 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 70 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 6 May 2010 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

70oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 95% of every possible ticket.

  • sum46th
  • odd32th
  • low65th
  • widest gap71th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread62th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

87times
178times
2111times
247times
42

Prize breakdown · 2010-05-06

  • Paid outA$2.2Mto 34k winning lines
  • 214 winnersA$53.5K

Where the money went

  • 234%A$748.8K
  • 316%A$342.5K
  • 631%A$679.2K
  • 2 other tiers19%A$417.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100kPrize each
  1. 214A$53,485
  2. 3

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8times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

250times

Every number was expected about that many times after 70 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 3 of 5 numbers (8, 21, 24) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 April 2010 — its closest relative in 70 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 37% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 April 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

112

The numbers add up to 112 — the 45th 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

42 had not appeared for 8 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 →
67
A$5,112
  • 42,300A$116
  • 52,647A$57.00
  • 628,841A$23.55
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10—
    214A$53,485
    367A$5,112
    42,300A$116
    52,647A$57.00
    628,841A$23.55