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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 31 December 2003

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 7
  3. 18
  4. 28
  5. 35
  6. 1

Jackpot$120,299,503

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/53 + 1/42 · Oct 2002 – Aug 2005draw 129 of 302 under them

← 2003-12-27All recent draws2004-01-03 →

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 feed5 7 18 28 35 + 129 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 128 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 2003 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

51oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 45% of every possible ticket.

  • sum10th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours33th
  • spread25th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each

513times
78times
1812times
2811times
35

Prize breakdown · 2003-12-31

  • Lines in play≈ 72as the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$240.6Mto 2 winning lines
  • Won something1 in 36lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2 winnerschance said 0.00
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 0.00 by chance$120,299,503
  2. Match 50≈ 0.00 by chance

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14times
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

15times

Every number was expected about that many times after 128 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 (18, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 July 2003 — its closest relative in 128 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 December 2003): nothing carried over. Chance says 40% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

93

The numbers add up to 93 — the 10th 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

28 had not appeared for 20 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 1.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.00 by chance$10,000
  • Match 40≈ 0.01 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.01 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.10 by chance$7.00
  • Match 30≈ 0.28 by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.58 by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.0 by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈72 lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 plus Bonus Ball — 2 winners against 0.00 expected — a real stretch for a count this size. That is usually the crowd: numbers more popular than average swell the higher tiers most.

    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 Ball2$120,299,503