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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 22 December 2004

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 7
  3. 11
  4. 24
  5. 31
  6. 18

Jackpot$16,988,665

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/53 + 1/42 · Oct 2002 – Aug 2005draw 231 of 302 under them

← 2004-12-18All recent draws2004-12-25 →

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 feed2 7 11 24 31 + 1829 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 230 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 22 December 2004 — 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.

  • sum3th
  • odd65th
  • low89th
  • widest gap22th
  • neighbours33th
  • spread23th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

224times
716times
1123times
2418times
31

Prize breakdown · 2004-12-22

  • Lines in play≈ 108as the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$51.0Mto 3 winning lines
  • Won something1 in 36lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3 winnerschance said 0.00
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3≈ 0.00 by chance$16,988,665
  2. Match 50≈ 0.00 by chance$1,000,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball

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27times
Stars · a separate 1-of-42 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each

183times

Every number was expected about that many times after 230 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 3 of 5 numbers (11, 24, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 October 2002 — its closest relative in 230 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 60% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 December 2004): 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

75

The numbers add up to 75 — the 3th 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

2 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 3.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
0≈ 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≈ 0.16 by chance$7.00
  • Match 30≈ 0.42 by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.87 by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.5 by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈108 lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 5 plus Bonus Ball — 3 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 Ball3$16,988,665