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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 16
  3. 17
  4. 39
  5. 51
  6. 32

Jackpot$60,000,000

The crowdHeld 14% more 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 11 of 388 under them

← 2012-02-18All recent draws2012-02-25 →

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 feed7 16 17 39 51 + 3229 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 10 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 22 February 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

56oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 60% of every possible ticket.

  • sum30th
  • odd89th
  • low65th
  • widest gap63th
  • neighbours83th
  • spread61th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

70times
160times
172times
391time
511time
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

320times

Every number was expected about that many times after 10 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 (17, 39, 51) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 February 2012 — its closest relative in 10 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 2.9% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 February 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 37% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

130

The numbers add up to 130 — the 29th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 4 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 →

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 14% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2012-02-22

  • Lines in play≈ 12Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$4.0Mto 392k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 31lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.07

Where the money went

  • Match 550%$2.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball11%$456.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball22%$878.7K
  • 5 other tiers17%$665.0K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.07 by chance$60,000,000
  2. Match 52≈ 2.4 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball9≈ 19 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 4710≈ 638 by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,057≈ 994 by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,211≈ 17k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 338,691≈ 34k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball114,011≈ 110k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball219,675≈ 220k by chance$4.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈12M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 38,691 winners, 14% more than the 34k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 0 plus Bonus Ball219,675$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball114,011$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,211$7.00
Match 338,691$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,057$100
Match 4710$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball9$10,000
Match 52$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$60,000,000