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2by2 · draw

Saturday, 28 January 2017

Result2by2

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 13
  3. 26

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

Rules3/26 · Nov 2016 – Sep 2022draw 74 of 1,768 under them

← 2017-01-27All recent draws2017-01-29 →

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 feed3 13 2629 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

2by2 was a 3/26 · Nov 2016 – Sep 2022 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 73 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 January 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 59% of every possible ticket.

  • sum55th
  • odd70th
  • low70th
  • widest gap75th
  • neighbours39th
  • spread96th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

310times
136times
263times

Every number was expected about that many times after 73 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 →

Prize breakdown · 2017-01-28

  • Lines in play≈ 23kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.6Kto 7.5k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 3lines took a prize
  • Match 315 winnerschance said 9.0

Where the money went

  • Match 341%$1.5K
  • Match 259%$2.1K
Tier1101001k10kWinners1101001k10k100kPrize each
  1. Match 315≈ 9.0 by chance$100
  2. Match 2705

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Its nearest twin

This exact draw has happened before, on 14 December 2016. Chance gave a match this close a 2.8% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 January 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

42

The numbers add up to 42 — the 53th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 41. No two numbers side by side. 22% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

13 had not appeared for 44 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 0% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 621 by chance
$3.00
  • Match 16,830≈ 6.8k by chance—
  • Match 40$22,000
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈23k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 705 winners, 14% more than the 621 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 40$22,000
    Match 315$100
    Match 2705$3.00
    Match 16,830$0.00
    Totals7,550—