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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 10 May 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 6
  3. 18
  4. 29
  5. 37
  6. 9

JackpotA$20,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 176 of 218 under them

← 2012-05-03All recent draws2012-05-17 →

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 feed3 6 18 29 37 + 929 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 175 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 10 May 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 82% of every possible ticket.

  • sum22th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap29th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread62th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 19 of each

315times
619times
1818times
2921times
37

Prize breakdown · 2012-05-10

  • Paid outA$5.5Mto 81k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$20M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$1.9M
  • 316%A$856.7K
  • 631%A$1.7M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$1M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$20,000,000
  2. 2

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26times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

96times

Every number was expected about that many times after 175 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 (6, 18, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 March 2012 — its closest relative in 175 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 May 2012): 29 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

93

The numbers add up to 93 — the 21th 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

3 had not appeared for 6 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 1.3× 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 →
20
A$93,654
  • 3141A$6,076
  • 45,581A$120
  • 56,170A$61.20
  • 668,947A$24.65
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$20,000,000
    220A$93,654
    3141A$6,076
    45,581A$120
    56,170A$61.20
    668,947A$24.65