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2by2 · draw

Friday, 8 January 2010

Result2by2

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 17
  3. 21
  4. 25

Jackpot$22,000

The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules4/26 · Jan 2010 – Nov 2016draw 8 of 2,502 under them

← 2010-01-07All recent draws2010-01-09 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:39 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed17 17 21 2529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

2by2 was a 4/26 · Jan 2010 – Nov 2016 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 7 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 8 January 2010 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

16oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 16 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum97th
  • odd98th
  • low2th
  • widest gap6th
  • neighbours30th
  • spread6th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

173times
173times
211time
250times

Every number was expected about that many times after 7 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.

Prize breakdown · 2010-01-08

  • Lines in play≈ 12kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.4Kto 5.5k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 2lines took a prize
  • Match 40 winnerschance said 0.80

Where the money went

  • Match 355%$1.9K
  • Match 245%$1.5K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100kPrize each
  1. Match 40≈ 0.80 by chance$22,000
  2. Match 319≈ 70 by chance

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Frequency Explorer →

Its nearest twin

Shares 1 of 4 numbers (21) with the draw of 4 January 2010 — its closest relative in 7 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (7 January 2010): nothing carried over. Chance says 51% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

80

The numbers add up to 80 — the 97th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 54. No two numbers side by side. 41% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 5 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 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 0% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$100
  • Match 2514≈ 1.1k by chance$3.00
  • Match 14,930≈ 4.9k by chance—
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈12k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 514 winners, 54% fewer than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 40$22,000
    Match 319$100
    Match 2514$3.00
    Match 14,930$0.00
    Totals5,463—