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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 27
  3. 31
  4. 45
  5. 48
  6. 5

Jackpot$110,000,000

The crowdHeld 9% 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 83 of 388 under them

← 2012-10-27All recent draws2012-11-03 →

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 feed1 27 31 45 48 + 529 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 82 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 31 October 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 65% of every possible ticket.

  • sum52th
  • odd89th
  • low32th
  • widest gap79th
  • neighbours35th
  • spread72th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

110times
272times
314times
457times
486times
Stars · a separate 1-of-35 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

53times

Every number was expected about that many times after 82 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 (1, 45) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 April 2012 — its closest relative in 82 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 October 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

152

The numbers add up to 152 — the 52th 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

45 had not appeared for 41 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 16% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2012-10-31

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$5.2Mto 428k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 32lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.08

Where the money went

  • Match 558%$3.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball10%$500.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball19%$991.0K
  • 5 other tiers14%$725.5K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.08 by chance$110,000,000
  2. Match 53≈ 2.7 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18≈ 21 by chance$10,000
  4. Match 4652≈ 719 by chance$100
  5. Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,064≈ 1.1k by chance$100
  6. Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,893≈ 19k by chance$7.00
  7. Match 334,520≈ 38k by chance$7.00
  8. Match 1 plus Bonus Ball125,120≈ 124k by chance$4.00
  9. Match 0 plus Bonus Ball247,750≈ 248k 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 3 — 34,520 winners, 9% fewer than the 38k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 0 plus Bonus Ball247,750$4.00
Match 1 plus Bonus Ball125,120$4.00
Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,893$7.00
Match 334,520$7.00
Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,064$100
Match 4652$100
Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18$10,000
Match 53$1,000,000
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$110,000,000