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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 28 February 2013

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 5
  3. 14
  4. 24
  5. 44
  6. 5

JackpotA$20,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

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

← 2013-02-21All recent draws2013-03-07 →

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 feed3 5 14 24 44 + 529 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 217 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 February 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 39% of every possible ticket.

  • sum19th
  • odd32th
  • low65th
  • widest gap81th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread93th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

320times
530times
1428times
2423times
44

Prize breakdown · 2013-02-28

  • Paid outA$25.3Mto 71k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$20M

Where the money went

  • 179%A$20M
  • 27.1%A$1.8M
  • 66.5%A$1.6M
  • 3 other tiers7.2%A$1.8M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 11A$20,000,000
  2. 2

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26times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each

54times

Every number was expected about that many times after 217 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 5 numbers (3, 14, 44) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 23 December 2010 — its closest relative in 217 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 76% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 February 2013): 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

90

The numbers add up to 90 — the 18th 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

3 had not appeared for 13 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
16
A$112,758
  • 3125A$6,601
  • 45,004A$129
  • 54,912A$74.05
  • 661,289A$26.70
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$20,000,000
    216A$112,758
    3125A$6,601
    45,004A$129
    54,912A$74.05
    661,289A$26.70