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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 14 April 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 15
  3. 16
  4. 19
  5. 24
  6. 2

Jackpot$113,000,000

The crowdHeld 24% 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 26 of 388 under them

← 2012-04-11All recent draws2012-04-18 →

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 feed14 15 16 19 24 + 229 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 25 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 14 April 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

14oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 14 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 0% of every possible ticket.

  • sum5th
  • odd32th
  • low99th
  • widest gap0th
  • neighbours98th
  • spread0th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

143times
152times
163times
191time
242times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

21time

Every number was expected about that many times after 25 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 1 of 5 numbers (16) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 April 2012 — its closest relative in 25 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 April 2012): 16 carried over. Chance says 37% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 2 repeated (3% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

88

The numbers add up to 88 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15, 15–16. 31% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

19 had not appeared for 23 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 1.7× 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 →

Prize breakdown · 2012-04-14

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$7.8Mto 509k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 31lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.09

Where the money went

  • Match 564%$5.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball7.5%$589.4K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball14%$1.1M
  • 5 other tiers14%$1.1M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.09 by chance$113,000,000
  2. Match 55≈ 3.0 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball33≈ 24 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 41,141≈ 816 by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,481≈ 1.3k by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball23,977≈ 22k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 353,538≈ 43k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball147,345≈ 141k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball281,253≈ 281k by chance$4.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,141 winners, 40% more than the 816 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 0 plus Bonus Ball281,253$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball147,345$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball23,977$7.00
Match 353,538$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,481$100
Match 41,141$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball33$10,000
Match 55$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$113,000,000