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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 14 July 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 16
  3. 32
  4. 37
  5. 46
  6. 13

Jackpot$90,000,000

The crowdHeld 8% 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 52 of 388 under them

← 2012-07-11All recent draws2012-07-18 →

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 feed4 16 32 37 46 + 1329 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 51 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 July 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

63oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 78% of every possible ticket.

  • sum35th
  • odd9th
  • low32th
  • widest gap30th
  • neighbours35th
  • spread53th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

44times
165times
322times
372times
466times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

131time

Every number was expected about that many times after 51 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 (46) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 27 June 2012 — its closest relative in 51 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 July 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

135

The numbers add up to 135 — the 34th 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

32 had not appeared for 33 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 0.9× 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 · 2012-07-14

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$6.3Mto 448k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 32lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.08

Where the money went

  • Match 563%$4.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball8.1%$511.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball16%$1.0M
  • 5 other tiers12%$784.7K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.08 by chance$90,000,000
  2. Match 54≈ 2.8 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball21≈ 22 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 4676≈ 759 by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,107≈ 1.2k by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,581≈ 21k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 337,046≈ 40k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball127,793≈ 131k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball261,548≈ 262k 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 — 676 winners, 11% fewer than the 759 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 Ball261,548$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball127,793$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,581$7.00
Match 337,046$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,107$100
Match 4676$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball21$10,000
Match 54$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$90,000,000