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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 6 December 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 19
  2. 20
  3. 50
  4. 55
  5. 62
  6. 9

Jackpot$194,300,000

The crowdHeld 13% 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 227 of 1,430 under them

← 2017-12-02All recent draws2017-12-09 →

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 feed19 20 50 55 62 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 6 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 51% of every possible ticket.

  • sum76th
  • odd33th
  • low33th
  • widest gap78th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread36th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 16 of each

1917times
2019times
5014times
5512times
62

Prize breakdown · 2017-12-06

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$3.4Mto 564k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.05

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball28%$950.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball17%$599.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball43%$1.5M
  • 4 other tiers12%$405.1K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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22times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

914times

Every number was expected about that many times after 226 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 (19, 55, 62) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 September 2016 — its closest relative in 226 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 34% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (2 December 2017): 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

206

The numbers add up to 206 — the 75th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

55 had not appeared for 21 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 38% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.05 by chance
$194,300,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.2 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19≈ 16 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4356≈ 391 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball881≈ 985 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,849≈ 20k by chance$7.00
  • Match 321,355≈ 25k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball149,960≈ 155k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball372,355≈ 372k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈14M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 21,355 winners, 13% fewer than the 25k 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 Ball372,355$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball149,960$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,849$7.00
    Match 321,355$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball881$100
    Match 4356$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$194,300,000