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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 20 December 1997

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 17
  5. 23
  6. 7

Jackpot$10,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/49 + 1/42 · Nov 1997 – Oct 2002draw 14 of 514 under them

← 1997-12-17All recent draws1997-12-24 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:53 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed10 11 12 17 23 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/49 + 1/42 · Nov 1997 – Oct 2002 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 13 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 1997 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

16oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 16 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum4th
  • odd65th
  • low99th
  • widest gap2th
  • neighbours98th
  • spread1th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

101time
111time
120times
171time
23

Prize breakdown · 1997-12-20

  • Paid out$0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winners$10.0M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$10,000,000
  2. Match 50$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0

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1time
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

70times

Every number was expected about that many times after 13 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 1 of 5 numbers (11) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 29 November 1997 — its closest relative in 13 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 December 1997): nothing carried over. Chance says 43% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

73

The numbers add up to 73 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 125. Side-by-side numbers: 10–11, 11–12. 36% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 12 draws. A number waits about 10 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 2.9× 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 →
$10,000
  • Match 40$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$7.00
  • Match 30$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0$7.00
    Match 30$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0$100
    Match 40$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0$10,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$10,000,000