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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 6
  3. 12
  4. 16
  5. 21
  6. 7

Jackpot$118,005,530

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/59 + 1/39 · Jan 2009 – Jan 2012draw 41 of 316 under them

← 2009-05-23All recent draws2009-05-30 →

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 feed5 6 12 16 21 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/59 + 1/39 · Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 40 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 27 May 2009 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

18oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 18 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum1th
  • odd32th
  • low99th
  • widest gap1th
  • neighbours83th
  • spread1th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

54times
65times
121time
164times
21

Prize breakdown · 2009-05-27

  • Lines in play≈ 35as the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$118Mto 1 winning lines
  • Won something1 in 35lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.00
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.00 by chance$118,005,530
  2. Match 50≈ 0.00 by chance

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2times
Stars · a separate 1-of-39 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

72times

Every number was expected about that many times after 40 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 1 of 5 numbers (6) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 May 2009 — its closest relative in 40 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 May 2009): nothing carried over. Chance says 37% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

60

The numbers add up to 60 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 5–6. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

5 had not appeared for 30 draws. A number waits about 12 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 3.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.00 by chance$10,000
  • Match 40≈ 0.00 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.00 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.04 by chance$7.00
  • Match 30≈ 0.10 by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.28 by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.57 by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈35 lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 plus Bonus Ball — 1 winner against 0.00 expected — a real stretch for a count this size. That is usually the crowd: numbers more popular than average swell the higher tiers most.

    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 Ball1$118,005,530