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Powerball · draw

Saturday, 23 December 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. 13
  4. 15
  5. 44
  6. 25

The crowdHeld 28% 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 232 of 1,430 under them

← 2017-12-20All recent draws2017-12-27 →

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 3 13 15 44 + 2529 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 23 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

40oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 21% of every possible ticket.

  • sum1th
  • odd89th
  • low89th
  • widest gap75th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread36th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

114times
320times
1313times
1511times
44

Prize breakdown · 2017-12-23

  • Lines in play≈ 27Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$8.3Mto 1.1M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 51 winnerchance said 2.4

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball28%$2.3M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball15%$1.2M
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball33%$2.8M
  • 5 other tiers24%$2.0M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 51≈ 2.4 by chance

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16times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

2510times

Every number was expected about that many times after 231 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 (1, 3, 13) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 October 2017 — its closest relative in 231 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 34% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 December 2017): 1 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

76

The numbers add up to 76 — the 1th 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

15 had not appeared for 34 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 26% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball46≈ 29 by chance$50,000
  • Match 41,001≈ 731 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,284≈ 1.8k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball43,271≈ 38k by chance$7.00
  • Match 359,062≈ 46k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball304,832≈ 290k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball696,439≈ 696k by chance$4.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈27M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,001 winners, 37% more than the 731 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 Ball696,439$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball304,832$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball43,271$7.00
    Match 359,062$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,284$100
    Match 41,001$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball46$50,000
    Match 51$1,000,000