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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 14 August 2014

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 8
  3. 12
  4. 26
  5. 31
  6. 38
  7. 6

JackpotA$50,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 76 of 267 under them

← 2014-08-07All recent draws2014-08-21 →

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 feed1 8 12 26 31 38 + 629 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 75 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 14 August 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 62% of every possible ticket.

  • sum40th
  • odd21th
  • low50th
  • widest gap66th
  • neighbours21th
  • spread92th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each

17times
813times
1210times
2616times
31

Prize breakdown · 2014-08-14

  • Paid outA$23.5Mto 1.1M winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$50M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$5M
  • 719%A$4.4M
  • 843%A$10.2M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$3.9M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$50,000,000
  2. 2

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9times
3811times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

62times

Every number was expected about that many times after 75 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 6 numbers (12, 26, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 August 2014 — its closest relative in 75 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 92% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (7 August 2014): 12, 26, 31 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

116

The numbers add up to 116 — the 39th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. No two numbers side by side. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

38 had not appeared for 4 draws. A number waits about 7 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 10% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
20
A$63,589
  • 3208A$6,397
  • 44,261A$175
  • 58,957A$63.35
  • 6126,765A$39.05
  • 7173,076A$25.65
  • 8745,704A$13.65
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$50,000,000
    220A$63,589
    3208A$6,397
    44,261A$175
    58,957A$63.35
    6126,765A$39.05
    7173,076A$25.65
    8745,704A$13.65