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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 3 December 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 10
  3. 26
  4. 27
  5. 33
  6. 22

Jackpot$55,200,000

The crowdHeld 52% more than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015draw 122 of 1,430 under them

← 2016-11-30All recent draws2016-12-07 →

Where this result came from

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

  • Primarycommercial feed8 10 26 27 33 + 2229 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

26oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.

  • sum5th
  • odd33th
  • low99th
  • widest gap19th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread5th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

84times
1010times
263times
2712times
33

Prize breakdown · 2016-12-03

  • Lines in play≈ 9.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$5.5Mto 406k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 554%$3.0M
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball12%$650.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball18%$1.0M
  • 5 other tiers16%$864.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.03 by chance

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10times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each

225times

Every number was expected about that many times after 121 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 (8, 27) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 12 November 2016 — its closest relative in 121 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 November 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

104

The numbers add up to 104 — the 5th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

26 had not appeared for 60 draws. A number waits about 14 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 27% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$55,200,000
  • Match 53≈ 0.82 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball13≈ 11 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4426≈ 263 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball820≈ 662 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,288≈ 14k by chance$7.00
  • Match 325,213≈ 17k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball112,428≈ 104k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball250,332≈ 250k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈9.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 25,213 winners, 52% more than the 17k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball250,332$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball112,428$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,288$7.00
    Match 325,213$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball820$100
    Match 4426$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball13$50,000
    Match 53$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$55,200,000