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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 29
  3. 34
  4. 44
  5. 50
  6. 28

Jackpot$80,000,000

The crowdHeld 5% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/59 + 1/35 · Jan 2012 – Oct 2015draw 1 of 388 under them

← 2012-01-14All recent draws2012-01-21 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed6 29 34 44 50 + 2829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/59 + 1/35 · Jan 2012 – Oct 2015 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 0 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 75% of every possible ticket.

  • sum63th
  • odd9th
  • low32th
  • widest gap68th
  • neighbours35th
  • spread61th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

60times
290times
340times
440times
500times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

280times

Every number was expected about that many times after 0 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

No earlier draws to compare against yet.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

163

The numbers add up to 163 — the 63th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

Every number here is appearing for the first time.

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 19% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-18

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.2Mto 417k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 32lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.08

Where the money went

  • Match 532%$1.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball15%$469.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball31%$975.9K
  • 5 other tiers23%$724.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.08 by chance$80,000,000
  2. Match 51≈ 2.6 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18≈ 21 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 4653≈ 708 by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,048≈ 1.1k by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,980≈ 19k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 335,495≈ 38k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball117,481≈ 122k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball243,977≈ 244k by chance$4.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈14M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 653 winners, 8% fewer than the 708 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 0 plus Bonus Ball243,977$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball117,481$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,980$7.00
Match 335,495$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,048$100
Match 4653$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18$10,000
Match 51$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$80,000,000