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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 2 August 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 7
  3. 17
  4. 25
  5. 28
  6. 26

JackpotA$50,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 188 of 218 under them

← 2012-07-26All recent draws2012-08-09 →

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 feed2 7 17 25 28 + 2629 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 187 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 2 August 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 48% of every possible ticket.

  • sum10th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap16th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread27th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 21 of each

229times
720times
1723times
2514times
28

Prize breakdown · 2012-08-02

  • Paid outA$62.5Mto 177k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$50M

Where the money went

  • 180%A$50M
  • 26.8%A$4.3M
  • 66.2%A$3.9M
  • 3 other tiers6.9%A$4.3M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 11A$50,000,000

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19times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

264times

Every number was expected about that many times after 187 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 (2, 7, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 March 2011 — its closest relative in 187 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 71% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (26 July 2012): 7, 28 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

79

The numbers add up to 79 — the 10th 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

25 had not appeared for 37 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 2.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
2
62
A$68,917
  • 3338A$5,782
  • 412,183A$125
  • 515,210A$56.60
  • 6149,487A$25.90
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$50,000,000
    262A$68,917
    3338A$5,782
    412,183A$125
    515,210A$56.60
    6149,487A$25.90