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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 7 December 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 41
  2. 48
  3. 49
  4. 53
  5. 64
  6. 20

Jackpot$69,000,000

The crowdHeld 14% less 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 123 of 1,430 under them

← 2016-12-03All recent draws2016-12-10 →

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 feed41 48 49 53 64 + 2029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 7 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

21oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 21 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.

  • sum97th
  • odd65th
  • low1th
  • widest gap5th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread4th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

419times
485times
497times
536times
64

Prize breakdown · 2016-12-07

  • Lines in play≈ 9.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$2.0Mto 366k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 26lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.03

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18%$350.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball19%$372.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball50%$984.8K
  • 4 other tiers13%$260.5K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.03 by chance

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18times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each

205times

Every number was expected about that many times after 122 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 (49, 64) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 15 October 2016 — its closest relative in 122 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 December 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

255

The numbers add up to 255 — the 97th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 48–49. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

53 had not appeared for 20 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 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 46% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$69,000,000
  • Match 50≈ 0.81 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball7≈ 10 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4212≈ 258 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball586≈ 651 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,829≈ 13k by chance$7.00
  • Match 313,989≈ 16k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball93,002≈ 103k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball246,188≈ 246k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈9.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 13,989 winners, 14% fewer than the 16k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball246,188$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball93,002$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,829$7.00
    Match 313,989$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball586$100
    Match 4212$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball7$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$69,000,000