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Powerball · draw

Wednesday, 27 December 2017

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 9
  3. 16
  4. 56
  5. 60
  6. 3

Jackpot$340,400,000

The crowdHeld about as often as 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 233 of 1,430 under them

← 2017-12-23All recent draws2017-12-30 →

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 feed3 9 16 56 60 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 27 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 46% of every possible ticket.

  • sum24th
  • odd33th
  • low65th
  • widest gap95th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread78th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

321times
918times
1624times
5613times
60

Prize breakdown · 2017-12-27

  • Lines in play≈ 27Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$6.5Mto 1.1M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.09

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball23%$1.5M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball19%$1.2M
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball44%$2.8M
  • 4 other tiers14%$894.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0

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15times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

39times

Every number was expected about that many times after 232 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 (3, 16, 56) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 October 2016 — its closest relative in 232 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 35% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 December 2017): 3 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

144

The numbers add up to 144 — the 24th 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

16 had not appeared for 13 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 29% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.09 by chance
$340,400,000
  • Match 50≈ 2.3 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball30≈ 30 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4724≈ 744 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,950≈ 1.9k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball41,832≈ 39k by chance$7.00
  • Match 347,773≈ 47k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball308,958≈ 295k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball708,888≈ 709k 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 2 plus Bonus Ball — 41,832 winners, 8% more than the 39k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball708,888$4.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball308,958$4.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball41,832$7.00
    Match 347,773$7.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,950$100
    Match 4724$100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball30$50,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0$340,400,000