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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 2 February 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 9
  2. 13
  3. 29
  4. 37
  5. 42
  6. 29

JackpotA$31,128,415

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 162 of 218 under them

← 2012-01-26All recent draws2012-02-09 →

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 feed9 13 29 37 42 + 2929 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 161 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 2 February 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

63oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 80% of every possible ticket.

  • sum70th
  • odd89th
  • low32th
  • widest gap58th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread57th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 18 of each

99times
1325times
2917times
3721times
42

Prize breakdown · 2012-02-02

  • Paid outA$39.4Mto 114k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$31.1M

Where the money went

  • 179%A$31.1M
  • 27.2%A$2.8M
  • 66.5%A$2.6M
  • 3 other tiers7.3%A$2.9M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 11A$31,128,415
  2. 2

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

293times

Every number was expected about that many times after 161 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, 29, 42) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 March 2009 — its closest relative in 161 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 65% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (26 January 2012): 13 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

130

The numbers add up to 130 — the 69th 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

29 had not appeared for 41 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 7% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
34
A$83,759
  • 3191A$6,819
  • 47,446A$136
  • 58,122A$70.65
  • 698,159A$26.30
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$31,128,415
    234A$83,759
    3191A$6,819
    47,446A$136
    58,122A$70.65
    698,159A$26.30