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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 24 December 2015

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 8
  3. 15
  4. 26
  5. 32
  6. 38
  7. 19

JackpotA$40,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 147 of 267 under them

← 2015-12-17All recent draws2015-12-31 →

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 feed1 8 15 26 32 38 + 1929 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 146 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 24 December 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

61oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 71% of every possible ticket.

  • sum46th
  • odd21th
  • low50th
  • widest gap38th
  • neighbours21th
  • spread92th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

115times
822times
1520times
2630times
32

Prize breakdown · 2015-12-24

  • Paid outA$15.5Mto 678k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$40.0M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$3.3M
  • 719%A$2.9M
  • 843%A$6.7M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$2.6M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$40,000,000
  2. 2

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31times
3821times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

1911times

Every number was expected about that many times after 146 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 (1, 8, 26, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 August 2014 — its closest relative in 146 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 28% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 December 2015): 32 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

120

The numbers add up to 120 — the 45th 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

1 had not appeared for 6 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 16% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
8
A$105,117
  • 3150A$5,865
  • 42,622A$188
  • 55,591A$67.10
  • 681,401A$40.20
  • 7107,532A$27.30
  • 8480,804A$14.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$40,000,000
    28A$105,117
    3150A$5,865
    42,622A$188
    55,591A$67.10
    681,401A$40.20
    7107,532A$27.30
    8480,804A$14.00