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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 22 December 2011

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 9
  3. 17
  4. 30
  5. 39
  6. 27

JackpotA$3,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 156 of 218 under them

← 2011-12-15All recent draws2011-12-29 →

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 feed2 9 17 30 39 + 2729 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 155 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 22 December 2011 — 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 79% of every possible ticket.

  • sum26th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap36th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread77th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

223times
97times
1720times
3017times
39

Prize breakdown · 2011-12-22

  • Paid outA$2.0Mto 27k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$3.0M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$670.0K
  • 316%A$306.4K
  • 631%A$607.6K
  • 2 other tiers19%A$374.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. 10A$3,000,000
  2. 2

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15times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

275times

Every number was expected about that many times after 155 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 (2, 30) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 December 2011 — its closest relative in 155 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 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

97

The numbers add up to 97 — the 26th 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

9 had not appeared for 30 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
4
A$167,495
  • 334A$9,013
  • 41,781A$134
  • 51,626A$83.05
  • 623,735A$25.60
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$3,000,000
    24A$167,495
    334A$9,013
    41,781A$134
    51,626A$83.05
    623,735A$25.60