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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 6 September 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 13
  2. 16
  3. 18
  4. 26
  5. 28
  6. 24

JackpotA$10,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 193 of 218 under them

← 2012-08-30All recent draws2012-09-13 →

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 feed13 16 18 26 28 + 2429 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 192 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 6 September 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

39oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 21% of every possible ticket.

  • sum31th
  • odd9th
  • low65th
  • widest gap7th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread3th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 21 of each

1329times
1617times
1822times
2615times
28

Prize breakdown · 2012-09-06

  • Paid outA$3.9Mto 53k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$10M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$1.3M
  • 316%A$607.4K
  • 631%A$1.2M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$741.1K
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

247times

Every number was expected about that many times after 192 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, 26) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 July 2012 — its closest relative in 192 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 August 2012): 13 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

101

The numbers add up to 101 — the 31th 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

16 had not appeared for 9 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 1.4× 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 →
23
A$57,737
  • 388A$6,902
  • 43,619A$131
  • 54,181A$64.00
  • 645,550A$26.45
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$10,000,000
    223A$57,737
    388A$6,902
    43,619A$131
    54,181A$64.00
    645,550A$26.45