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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Powerball · draw
ResultPowerball
Jackpot$30,000,000
The crowdHeld 10% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/59 + 1/39 · Jan 2009 – Jan 2012draw 313 of 316 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.
Powerball was a 5/59 + 1/39 · Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 312 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 4 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 36 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 312 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 →Shares 2 of 5 numbers (35, 47) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 November 2011 — its closest relative in 312 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (31 December 2011): nothing carried over. Chance says 37% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 199 — the 90th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 46–47. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →50 had not appeared for 28 draws. A number waits about 12 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.
Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →A line like this is played about 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 33% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,005 winners, 12% fewer than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 251,990 | $3.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 118,303 | $4.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 17,479 | $7.00 |
| Match 3 | 38,789 | $7.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,005 | $100 |
| Match 4 | 722 | $100 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 20 | $10,000 |
| Match 5 | 2 | $200,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | $30,000,000 |