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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 12
  2. 35
  3. 45
  4. 46
  5. 47
  6. 12

Jackpot$60,000,000

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 + 1/35 · Jan 2012 – Oct 2015draw 15 of 388 under them

← 2012-03-03All recent draws2012-03-10 →

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 feed12 35 45 46 47 + 1229 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 14 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 7 March 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.

  • sum82th
  • odd65th
  • low9th
  • widest gap68th
  • neighbours98th
  • spread30th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

122times
350times
453times
461time
472times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

120times

Every number was expected about that many times after 14 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 2 of 5 numbers (45, 47) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 March 2012 — its closest relative in 14 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 53% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 March 2012): 45, 47 carried over. Chance says 37% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

185

The numbers add up to 185 — the 82th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 45–46, 46–47. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

46 had not appeared for 9 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 21% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2012-03-07

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$63.1Mto 400k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 33lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.07

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball95%$60.0M
  • Match 51.6%$1.0M
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball1.5%$942.0K
  • 6 other tiers1.8%$1.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.07 by chance$60,000,000
  2. Match 51≈ 2.5 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20≈ 20 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 4573≈ 684 by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball973≈ 1.1k by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,967≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 332,579≈ 36k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball113,272≈ 118k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball235,498≈ 235k by chance$4.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈13M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 573 winners, 16% fewer than the 684 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 0 plus Bonus Ball235,498$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball113,272$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,967$7.00
Match 332,579$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball973$100
Match 4573$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20$10,000
Match 51$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1$60,000,000