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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 17 December 2015

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 7
  3. 9
  4. 23
  5. 32
  6. 40
  7. 9

JackpotA$25,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 146 of 267 under them

← 2015-12-10All recent draws2015-12-24 →

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 7 9 23 32 40 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 145 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 17 December 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

65oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 65 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 79% of every possible ticket.

  • sum36th
  • odd50th
  • low50th
  • widest gap66th
  • neighbours21th
  • spread96th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

218times
723times
921times
2324times
32

Prize breakdown · 2015-12-17

  • Paid outA$9.5Mto 429k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$25.0M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$2.0M
  • 719%A$1.8M
  • 843%A$4.1M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$1.6M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$25,000,000
  2. 2

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30times
4016times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

96times

Every number was expected about that many times after 145 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 4 of 6 numbers (7, 9, 23, 40) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 September 2013 — its closest relative in 145 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 28% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (10 December 2015): nothing carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 9 repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

113

The numbers add up to 113 — the 35th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. No two numbers side by side. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

32 had not appeared for 15 draws. A number waits about 7 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
5
A$102,958
  • 3110A$4,896
  • 41,825A$165
  • 53,657A$62.80
  • 652,372A$38.25
  • 769,066A$26.05
  • 8301,640A$13.65
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$25,000,000
    25A$102,958
    3110A$4,896
    41,825A$165
    53,657A$62.80
    652,372A$38.25
    769,066A$26.05
    8301,640A$13.65