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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 17 May 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 29
  3. 35
  4. 42
  5. 44
  6. 11

JackpotA$25,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 177 of 218 under them

← 2012-05-10All recent draws2012-05-24 →

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 29 35 42 44 + 1129 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 176 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 17 May 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

56oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 60% of every possible ticket.

  • sum96th
  • odd32th
  • low9th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread43th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each

1424times
2922times
3521times
4221times
44

Prize breakdown · 2012-05-17

  • Paid outA$31.2Mto 81k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$25M

Where the money went

  • 180%A$25M
  • 26.8%A$2.1M
  • 66.2%A$1.9M
  • 3 other tiers6.9%A$2.2M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 11A$25,000,000
  2. 2

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22times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

112times

Every number was expected about that many times after 176 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 (14, 42, 44) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 29 July 2010 — its closest relative in 176 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 69% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (10 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

164

The numbers add up to 164 — the 96th 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

44 had not appeared for 24 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 9% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
27
A$78,689
  • 3141A$6,892
  • 45,178A$146
  • 55,921A$72.30
  • 669,918A$27.55
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$25,000,000
    227A$78,689
    3141A$6,892
    45,178A$146
    55,921A$72.30
    669,918A$27.55