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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 20
  3. 61
  4. 64
  5. 69
  6. 20

Jackpot$272,000,000

The crowdHeld 6% 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 231 of 1,430 under them

← 2017-12-16All recent draws2017-12-23 →

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 feed1 20 61 64 69 + 2029 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 December 2017 — 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 25% of every possible ticket.

  • sum82th
  • odd65th
  • low33th
  • widest gap96th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread100th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

113times
2020times
6121times
6425times
69

Prize breakdown · 2017-12-20

  • Lines in play≈ 19Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$4.4Mto 774k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 25lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.07

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball23%$1.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball19%$826.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball46%$2.0M
  • 4 other tiers13%$576.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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24times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

207times

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 2 of 5 numbers (1, 69) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 October 2017 — its closest relative in 230 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 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

215

The numbers add up to 215 — the 81th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. No two numbers side by side. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

64 had not appeared for 23 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 37% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.07 by chance
$272,000,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.7 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20≈ 21 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4436≈ 533 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,284≈ 1.3k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball26,297≈ 28k by chance$7.00
  • Match 331,439≈ 34k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball206,545≈ 212k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball508,204≈ 508k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈19M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 436 winners, 18% fewer than the 533 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 Ball508,204$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball206,545$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball26,297$7.00
    Match 331,439$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,284$100
    Match 4436$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$272,000,000