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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 12 August 2010

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 13
  3. 18
  4. 21
  5. 29
  6. 9

JackpotA$15,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 85 of 218 under them

← 2010-08-05All recent draws2010-08-19 →

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 13 18 21 29 + 929 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 84 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 12 August 2010 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

36oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 36 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 17% of every possible ticket.

  • sum14th
  • odd89th
  • low89th
  • widest gap16th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread27th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

35times
1315times
1811times
2113times
29

Prize breakdown · 2010-08-12

  • Paid outA$49Mto 70k winning lines
  • 13 winnersA$15M

Where the money went

  • 192%A$45M
  • 22.8%A$1.4M
  • 62.5%A$1.2M
  • 3 other tiers2.8%A$1.4M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 13A$15,000,000
  2. 2

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13times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

91time

Every number was expected about that many times after 84 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 (13, 18, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 April 2010 — its closest relative in 84 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 42% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 August 2010): 13, 18 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

84

The numbers add up to 84 — the 13th 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 17 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
29
A$46,694
  • 3126A$4,915
  • 45,090A$94.85
  • 56,258A$43.60
  • 658,482A$21.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    13A$15,000,000
    229A$46,694
    3126A$4,915
    45,090A$94.85
    56,258A$43.60
    658,482A$21.00