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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 21 July 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 9
  2. 31
  3. 38
  4. 54
  5. 56
  6. 20

Jackpot$110,000,000

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 54 of 388 under them

← 2012-07-18All recent draws2012-07-25 →

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 feed9 31 38 54 56 + 2029 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 53 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 21 July 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 49% of every possible ticket.

  • sum84th
  • odd32th
  • low9th
  • widest gap63th
  • neighbours35th
  • spread72th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

93times
311time
382times
543times
568times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

200times

Every number was expected about that many times after 53 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 (9, 56) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 May 2012 — its closest relative in 53 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 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

188

The numbers add up to 188 — the 84th 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

54 had not appeared for 32 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 18% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2012-07-21

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$5.5Mto 494k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 32lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.09

Where the money went

  • Match 554%$3.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball10%$564.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%$1.2M
  • 5 other tiers15%$819.7K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.09 by chance$110,000,000
  2. Match 53≈ 3.1 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20≈ 25 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 4754≈ 840 by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,166≈ 1.3k by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball21,125≈ 23k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 339,977≈ 45k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball141,187≈ 145k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball289,503≈ 290k 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 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,166 winners, 11% fewer than the 1.3k 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 Ball289,503$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball141,187$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball21,125$7.00
Match 339,977$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,166$100
Match 4754$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20$10,000
Match 53$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$110,000,000