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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 12 March 2022

ResultPowerball

Verified
  1. 19
  2. 20
  3. 37
  4. 39
  5. 61
  6. 8

Jackpot$117,200,000

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

Rules5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015draw 701 of 1,430 under them

← 2022-03-09All recent draws2022-03-14 →

Where this result came from

Sources2 independent sources agree, 1 official. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Secondary 5official19 20 37 39 61 + 823 Aug 2026, 15:40 UTC
  • Primarycommercial feed19 20 37 39 61 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 March 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 74% of every possible ticket.

  • sum51th
  • odd89th
  • low33th
  • widest gap46th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread33th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 51 of each

1946times
2057times
3751times
3955times
61

Prize breakdown · 2022-03-12

  • Lines in play≈ 11Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$2.5Mto 423k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball24%$600.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball18%$457.6K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball45%$1.1M
  • 4 other tiers13%$318.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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68times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

828times

Every number was expected about that many times after 700 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 3 of 5 numbers (19, 37, 61) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 March 2022 — its closest relative in 700 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 72% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (9 March 2022): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

176

The numbers add up to 176 — the 50th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 had not appeared for 27 draws. A number waits about 14 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 38% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.04 by chance
$117,200,000
  • Match 50≈ 0.91 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball12≈ 12 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4267≈ 290 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball733≈ 731 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,448≈ 15k by chance$7.00
  • Match 316,755≈ 18k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball114,403≈ 115k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball276,464≈ 276k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈11M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 16,755 winners, 8% fewer than the 18k 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 Ball276,464$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball114,403$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,448$7.00
    Match 316,755$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball733$100
    Match 4267$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball12$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$117,200,000