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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 26 January 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 13
  3. 14
  4. 17
  5. 23
  6. 1

JackpotA$20,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 161 of 218 under them

← 2012-01-19All recent draws2012-02-02 →

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 feed5 13 14 17 23 + 129 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 160 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 26 January 2012 — 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 2% of every possible ticket.

  • sum6th
  • odd89th
  • low99th
  • widest gap7th
  • neighbours78th
  • spread7th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 18 of each

521times
1324times
1420times
1721times
23

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-26

  • Paid outA$5.3Mto 74k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$20.0M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$1.8M
  • 316%A$825.3K
  • 631%A$1.6M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$1.0M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$20,000,000
  2. 2

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17times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

15times

Every number was expected about that many times after 160 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 (5, 13, 14) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 April 2011 — its closest relative in 160 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 65% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (19 January 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

72

The numbers add up to 72 — the 6th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

14 had not appeared for 14 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
24
A$75,182
  • 3132A$6,252
  • 45,079A$127
  • 56,685A$54.40
  • 662,241A$26.30
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$20,000,000
    224A$75,182
    3132A$6,252
    45,079A$127
    56,685A$54.40
    662,241A$26.30