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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 20 December 2012

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 11
  2. 18
  3. 23
  4. 29
  5. 30
  6. 24

JackpotA$15,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2009 – Mar 2013draw 208 of 218 under them

← 2012-12-13All recent draws2012-12-27 →

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 feed11 18 23 29 30 + 2429 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 207 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 20 December 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

50oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 44% of every possible ticket.

  • sum44th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap4th
  • neighbours78th
  • spread8th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each

1127times
1825times
2324times
2925times
30

Prize breakdown · 2012-12-20

  • Paid outA$3.5Mto 50k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$15M

Where the money went

  • 234%A$1.2M
  • 316%A$547.7K
  • 631%A$1.1M
  • 2 other tiers19%A$668.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$15,000,000
  2. 2

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24times
Stars · a separate 1-of-45 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each

248times

Every number was expected about that many times after 207 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 (11, 18, 30) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 13 December 2012 — its closest relative in 207 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 74% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 December 2012): 11, 18, 30 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

111

The numbers add up to 111 — the 44th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 29–30. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

23 had not appeared for 18 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 2.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
22
A$54,429
  • 394A$5,826
  • 43,506A$122
  • 54,462A$54.10
  • 642,332A$25.65
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$15,000,000
    222A$54,429
    394A$5,826
    43,506A$122
    54,462A$54.10
    642,332A$25.65