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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 3 December 2003

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 10
  3. 35
  4. 37
  5. 43
  6. 30

Jackpot$56,500,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/53 + 1/42 · Oct 2002 – Aug 2005draw 121 of 302 under them

← 2003-11-29All recent draws2003-12-06 →

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 feed1 10 35 37 43 + 3029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 5/53 + 1/42 · Oct 2002 – Aug 2005 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 120 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 3 December 2003 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 52% of every possible ticket.

  • sum40th
  • odd89th
  • low32th
  • widest gap85th
  • neighbours33th
  • spread71th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each

19times
1012times
3513times
379times
43

Prize breakdown · 2003-12-03

  • Paid out$0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winners$56.5M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$56,500,000
  2. Match 50$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0

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7times
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

304times

Every number was expected about that many times after 120 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 2 of 5 numbers (1, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 November 2003 — its closest relative in 120 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 November 2003): 43 carried over. Chance says 40% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

126

The numbers add up to 126 — the 39th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 135. No two numbers side by side. 34% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

10 had not appeared for 23 draws. A number waits about 11 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 13% 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$56,500,000