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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 11 October 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 14
  3. 21
  4. 29
  5. 39
  6. 28

JackpotA$3,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 198 of 218 under them

← 2012-10-04All recent draws2012-10-18 →

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 14 21 29 39 + 2829 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 197 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 11 October 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

63oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 82% of every possible ticket.

  • sum36th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap29th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread77th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

231times
1425times
2122times
2924times
39

Prize breakdown · 2012-10-11

  • Paid outA$2.2Mto 34k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$3M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$748.3K
  • 316%A$342.2K
  • 631%A$678.2K
  • 2 other tiers19%A$417.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$3,000,000
  2. 2

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21times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

286times

Every number was expected about that many times after 197 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 (14, 21, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 January 2009 — its closest relative in 197 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 73% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (4 October 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

105

The numbers add up to 105 — the 36th 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

21 had not appeared for 59 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 1.0× 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 →
9
A$83,144
  • 364A$5,348
  • 42,406A$111
  • 52,185A$69.00
  • 629,172A$23.25
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$3,000,000
    29A$83,144
    364A$5,348
    42,406A$111
    52,185A$69.00
    629,172A$23.25