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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 5 July 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 18
  3. 26
  4. 37
  5. 42
  6. 14

JackpotA$10,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 184 of 218 under them

← 2012-06-28All recent draws2012-07-12 →

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 feed16 18 26 37 42 + 1429 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 183 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 5 July 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

47oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 36% of every possible ticket.

  • sum80th
  • odd9th
  • low32th
  • widest gap22th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread27th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each

1616times
1821times
2614times
3727times
42

Prize breakdown · 2012-07-05

  • Paid outA$3.4Mto 42k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$10M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$1.2M
  • 316%A$531.7K
  • 631%A$1.1M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$648.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$10,000,000
  2. 2

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

143times

Every number was expected about that many times after 183 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 (16, 18, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 May 2009 — its closest relative in 183 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 70% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (28 June 2012): 18 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

139

The numbers add up to 139 — the 80th 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

37 had not appeared for 8 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 →
10
A$116,247
  • 374A$7,185
  • 42,955A$140
  • 53,036A$77.15
  • 635,946A$29.35
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$10,000,000
    210A$116,247
    374A$7,185
    42,955A$140
    53,036A$77.15
    635,946A$29.35