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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 24 May 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 18
  3. 22
  4. 27
  5. 34
  6. 32

JackpotA$3,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 178 of 218 under them

← 2012-05-17All recent draws2012-05-31 →

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 feed4 18 22 27 34 + 3229 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 177 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 24 May 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

66oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 88% of every possible ticket.

  • sum36th
  • odd9th
  • low65th
  • widest gap44th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread43th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each

424times
1819times
2222times
2714times
34

Prize breakdown · 2012-05-24

  • Paid outA$2.2Mto 29k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$3M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$748.5K
  • 316%A$342.3K
  • 631%A$678.9K
  • 2 other tiers19%A$417.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$3,000,000
  2. 2

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

327times

Every number was expected about that many times after 177 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 (4, 18, 22) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 December 2009 — its closest relative in 177 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 69% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 May 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

105

The numbers add up to 105 — the 36th 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

27 had not appeared for 31 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 →
10
A$74,852
  • 334A$10,069
  • 41,906A$140
  • 52,358A$64.00
  • 624,289A$27.95
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$3,000,000
    210A$74,852
    334A$10,069
    41,906A$140
    52,358A$64.00
    624,289A$27.95