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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 15 December 2011

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 23
  3. 38
  4. 41
  5. 45
  6. 45

JackpotA$10,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 155 of 218 under them

← 2011-12-08All recent draws2011-12-22 →

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 feed16 23 38 41 45 + 4529 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 154 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 15 December 2011 — 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 81% of every possible ticket.

  • sum96th
  • odd65th
  • low32th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread39th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

1613times
2315times
3813times
4118times
45

Prize breakdown · 2011-12-15

  • Paid outA$12.9Mto 38k winning lines
  • 11 winnerA$10.0M

Where the money went

  • 177%A$10.0M
  • 27.8%A$1.0M
  • 67.1%A$914.1K
  • 3 other tiers7.9%A$1.0M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 11A$10,000,000
  2. 2

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17times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

453times

Every number was expected about that many times after 154 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 (16, 38, 45) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 July 2010 — its closest relative in 154 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 64% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (8 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

163

The numbers add up to 163 — the 96th 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

38 had not appeared for 27 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 9% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
7
A$144,055
  • 358A$7,952
  • 42,406A$149
  • 52,272A$89.45
  • 633,361A$27.40
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
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    MatchWinnersPrize each
    11A$10,000,000
    27A$144,055
    358A$7,952
    42,406A$149
    52,272A$89.45
    633,361A$27.40