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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 8 December 2011

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 20
  2. 26
  3. 28
  4. 36
  5. 39
  6. 6

JackpotA$6,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 154 of 218 under them

← 2011-12-01All recent draws2011-12-15 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed20 26 28 36 39 + 629 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 153 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 December 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

25oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 25 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.

  • sum89th
  • odd9th
  • low9th
  • widest gap7th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread8th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

2011times
2612times
2815times
3620times
39

Prize breakdown · 2011-12-08

  • Paid outA$2.3Mto 29k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$6.0M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$774.3K
  • 316%A$354.1K
  • 631%A$702.4K
  • 2 other tiers19%A$432.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$6,000,000
  2. 2

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14times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

67times

Every number was expected about that many times after 153 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 (26, 36, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 September 2010 — its closest relative in 153 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 63% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 December 2011): nothing carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

149

The numbers add up to 149 — the 88th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. No two numbers side by side. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

39 had not appeared for 23 draws. A number waits about 9 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
7
A$110,609
  • 348A$7,378
  • 41,910A$145
  • 52,181A$71.55
  • 624,518A$28.65
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$6,000,000
    27A$110,609
    348A$7,378
    41,910A$145
    52,181A$71.55
    624,518A$28.65