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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 18 August 2011

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 12
  3. 21
  4. 28
  5. 36
  6. 24

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 138 of 218 under them

← 2011-08-11All recent draws2011-08-25 →

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 feed1 12 21 28 36 + 2429 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 137 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 18 August 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

60oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 60 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 73% of every possible ticket.

  • sum28th
  • odd32th
  • low65th
  • widest gap22th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread67th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 15 of each

118times
129times
2120times
2812times
36

Prize breakdown · 2011-08-18

  • Paid outA$2.6Mto 35k winning lines
  • 220 winnersA$44.2K

Where the money went

  • 234%A$883.4K
  • 316%A$404K
  • 631%A$801.2K
  • 2 other tiers19%A$493K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100kPrize each
  1. 220A$44,169
  2. 3

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16times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

245times

Every number was expected about that many times after 137 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 (1, 21, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 August 2009 — its closest relative in 137 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 59% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 August 2011): 1 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

98

The numbers add up to 98 — the 27th 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

21 had not appeared for 16 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 4% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
59
A$6,848
  • 42,349A$134
  • 52,777A$64.10
  • 629,563A$27.10
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10—
    220A$44,169
    359A$6,848
    42,349A$134
    52,777A$64.10
    629,563A$27.10