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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 16 February 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 5
  3. 31
  4. 41
  5. 43
  6. 26

JackpotA$6,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 164 of 218 under them

← 2012-02-09All recent draws2012-02-23 →

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 feed2 5 31 41 43 + 2629 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 163 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 16 February 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.

  • sum60th
  • odd89th
  • low32th
  • widest gap96th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread93th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 18 of each

225times
522times
3120times
4119times
43

Prize breakdown · 2012-02-16

  • Paid outA$14.5Mto 33k winning lines
  • 12 winnersA$6M

Where the money went

  • 183%A$12M
  • 25.9%A$861.1K
  • 65.4%A$780.7K
  • 3 other tiers6.0%A$874.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 12A$6,000,000
  2. 2

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

263times

Every number was expected about that many times after 163 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 (2, 31, 41) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 August 2010 — its closest relative in 163 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 66% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (9 February 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

122

The numbers add up to 122 — the 59th 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

43 had not appeared for 12 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
4
A$215,270
  • 354A$7,293
  • 42,173A$141
  • 52,229A$77.85
  • 628,287A$27.60
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    12A$6,000,000
    24A$215,270
    354A$7,293
    42,173A$141
    52,229A$77.85
    628,287A$27.60