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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 12 July 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 8
  3. 20
  4. 28
  5. 36
  6. 11

JackpotA$15,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 185 of 218 under them

← 2012-07-05All recent draws2012-07-19 →

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 8 20 28 36 + 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 184 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 12 July 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

57oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 64% of every possible ticket.

  • sum24th
  • odd9th
  • low65th
  • widest gap29th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread57th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each

317times
819times
2016times
2817times
36

Prize breakdown · 2012-07-12

  • Paid outA$4.1Mto 61k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$15M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$1.4M
  • 316%A$646.2K
  • 631%A$1.3M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$788.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$15,000,000
  2. 2

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23times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

113times

Every number was expected about that many times after 184 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 (20, 28, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 December 2011 — its closest relative in 184 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 70% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 July 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

95

The numbers add up to 95 — the 24th 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

20 had not appeared for 13 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 1.5× 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 →
25
A$56,512
  • 3115A$5,619
  • 44,281A$118
  • 54,442A$64.10
  • 652,547A$24.40
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$15,000,000
    225A$56,512
    3115A$5,619
    44,281A$118
    54,442A$64.10
    652,547A$24.40