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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 26 April 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 15
  3. 23
  4. 32
  5. 38
  6. 12

JackpotA$10,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 174 of 218 under them

← 2012-04-19All recent draws2012-05-03 →

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 feed14 15 23 32 38 + 1229 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 173 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 April 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 55% of every possible ticket.

  • sum60th
  • odd32th
  • low65th
  • widest gap11th
  • neighbours78th
  • spread20th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 19 of each

1423times
1517times
2319times
3222times
38

Prize breakdown · 2012-04-26

  • Paid outA$2.9Mto 37k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$10M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$984.1K
  • 316%A$450.1K
  • 631%A$892.5K
  • 2 other tiers19%A$549.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$10,000,000
  2. 2

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15times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

123times

Every number was expected about that many times after 173 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 2 of 5 numbers (14, 15) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 23 February 2012 — its closest relative in 173 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (19 April 2012): 14 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. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

15 had not appeared for 9 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 →
11
A$89,462
  • 348A$9,377
  • 42,511A$140
  • 52,627A$75.50
  • 631,536A$28.30
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$10,000,000
    211A$89,462
    348A$9,377
    42,511A$140
    52,627A$75.50
    631,536A$28.30