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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 8 March 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 17
  3. 18
  4. 29
  5. 33
  6. 7

JackpotA$3,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 167 of 218 under them

← 2012-03-01All recent draws2012-03-15 →

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 feed6 17 18 29 33 + 729 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 166 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 8 March 2012 — 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 72% of every possible ticket.

  • sum34th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap22th
  • neighbours78th
  • spread31th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 18 of each

617times
1722times
1815times
2918times
33

Prize breakdown · 2012-03-08

  • Paid outA$5.3Mto 34k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$3M

Where the money went

  • 157%A$3M
  • 215%A$773.8K
  • 613%A$701.5K
  • 3 other tiers15%A$785.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 11A$3,000,000
  2. 2

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20times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

74times

Every number was expected about that many times after 166 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (6, 17, 33) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 23 June 2011 — its closest relative in 166 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 66% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 March 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

103

The numbers add up to 103 — the 33th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

33 had not appeared for 23 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 1.0× 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 →
55
A$14,070
  • 364A$5,530
  • 42,491A$111
  • 52,296A$67.95
  • 628,867A$24.30
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$3,000,000
    255A$14,070
    364A$5,530
    42,491A$111
    52,296A$67.95
    628,867A$24.30