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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 12 January 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 12
  2. 19
  3. 23
  4. 42
  5. 45
  6. 42

JackpotA$12,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 159 of 218 under them

← 2012-01-05All recent draws2012-01-19 →

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 feed12 19 23 42 45 + 4229 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 158 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 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 78% of every possible ticket.

  • sum82th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap76th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread57th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 18 of each

1212times
1916times
2316times
4217times
45

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-12

  • Paid outA$3.8Mto 50k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$12.0M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$1.3M
  • 316%A$600.9K
  • 631%A$1.2M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$733.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$12,000,000
  2. 2

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18times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

421time

Every number was expected about that many times after 158 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 (19, 42, 45) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 August 2011 — its closest relative in 158 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 65% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 January 2012): 12 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

141

The numbers add up to 141 — the 82th 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

42 had not appeared for 22 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
23
A$57,125
  • 393A$6,461
  • 43,432A$137
  • 54,254A$62.25
  • 641,996A$28.40
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$12,000,000
    223A$57,125
    393A$6,461
    43,432A$137
    54,254A$62.25
    641,996A$28.40