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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 31 December 2015

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 20
  3. 26
  4. 33
  5. 34
  6. 37
  7. 17

JackpotA$50,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 148 of 267 under them

← 2015-12-24All recent draws2016-01-07 →

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 feed17 20 26 33 34 37 + 1729 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 147 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 31 December 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 26% of every possible ticket.

  • sum95th
  • odd50th
  • low21th
  • widest gap7th
  • neighbours63th
  • spread8th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

1720times
2023times
2631times
3317times
34

Prize breakdown · 2015-12-31

  • Paid outA$19.3Mto 837k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$50M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$4.1M
  • 719%A$3.7M
  • 843%A$8.4M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$3.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$50,000,000
  2. 2

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24times
3723times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

174times

Every number was expected about that many times after 147 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 (26, 33, 34, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 January 2014 — its closest relative in 147 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 28% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 December 2015): 26 carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

167

The numbers add up to 167 — the 95th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. Side-by-side numbers: 33–34. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

37 had not appeared for 26 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 28% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
8
A$131,016
  • 3168A$6,527
  • 43,143A$195
  • 57,116A$65.70
  • 6102,634A$39.75
  • 7131,418A$27.85
  • 8592,454A$14.15
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$50,000,000
    28A$131,016
    3168A$6,527
    43,143A$195
    57,116A$65.70
    6102,634A$39.75
    7131,418A$27.85
    8592,454A$14.15