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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 20 September 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 15
  3. 22
  4. 26
  5. 40
  6. 13

JackpotA$20,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 195 of 218 under them

← 2012-09-13All recent draws2012-09-27 →

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 feed6 15 22 26 40 + 1329 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 194 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 20 September 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.

  • sum42th
  • odd9th
  • low65th
  • widest gap44th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread62th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

622times
1520times
2224times
2616times
40

Prize breakdown · 2012-09-20

  • Paid outA$5.1Mto 70k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$20M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$1.7M
  • 316%A$795.4K
  • 631%A$1.6M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$970.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$20,000,000
  2. 2

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13times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

134times

Every number was expected about that many times after 194 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 (6, 15, 26) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 September 2010 — its closest relative in 194 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 September 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

109

The numbers add up to 109 — the 41th 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

40 had not appeared for 47 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 1.1× 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 →
21
A$82,813
  • 3120A$6,628
  • 44,572A$136
  • 54,996A$70.15
  • 660,671A$26.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$20,000,000
    221A$82,813
    3120A$6,628
    44,572A$136
    54,996A$70.15
    660,671A$26.00