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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 28 January 2006

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 15
  3. 26
  4. 28
  5. 36
  6. 36

Jackpot$137,600,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/55 + 1/42 · Aug 2005 – Jan 2009draw 44 of 350 under them

← 2006-01-25All recent draws2006-02-01 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed14 15 26 28 36 + 3629 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/55 + 1/42 · Aug 2005 – Jan 2009 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 43 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 2006 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

28oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum27th
  • odd9th
  • low89th
  • widest gap11th
  • neighbours82th
  • spread7th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

145times
156times
262times
282times
36

Prize breakdown · 2006-01-28

  • Paid out$0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winners$137.6M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$137,600,000
  2. Match 50$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0

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2times
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

362times

Every number was expected about that many times after 43 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 (15, 26) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 December 2005 — its closest relative in 43 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 93% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (25 January 2006): nothing carried over. Chance says 39% 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 27th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 140. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15. 32% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 18 draws. A number waits about 11 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 10% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$10,000
  • Match 40$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$7.00
  • Match 30$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$7.00
    Match 30$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0$100
    Match 40$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0$10,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$137,600,000