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Powerball Double Play · draw

Wednesday, 29 December 2021

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 43
  2. 51
  3. 53
  4. 63
  5. 68
  6. 5

Jackpot$459,600,000

The crowdHeld 17% 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 Aug 2021draw 56 of 806 under them

← 2021-12-27All recent draws2022-01-01 →

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 feed43 51 53 63 68 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 29 December 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

19oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 19 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.

  • sum99th
  • odd89th
  • low1th
  • widest gap4th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread5th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each

433times
515times
532times
634times
68

Prize breakdown · 2021-12-29

  • Lines in play≈ 37Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$12.5Mto 1.6M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.13

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball24%$3.1M
  • Match 1 plus Powerball17%$2.1M
  • Match 0 plus Powerball37%$4.7M
  • 7 other tiers22%$2.7M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0

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3times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

50times

Every number was expected about that many times after 55 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 (51, 63, 68) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 December 2021 — its closest relative in 55 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 9.5% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 December 2021): 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

278

The numbers add up to 278 — the 99th 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

43 had not appeared for 25 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 64% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
≈ 0.13 by chance
$459,600,000
  • Match 51≈ 3.2 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in53≈ 41 by chance$50,000
  • Match 41,004≈ 1.0k by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in3,338≈ 2.6k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in61,647≈ 53k by chance$7.00
  • Match 360,625≈ 65k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in433,210≈ 407k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in976,857≈ 977k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 4245$200
  • Match 315,298$14.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈37M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Powerball — 3,338 winners, 29% more than the 2.6k 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 5 plus Powerball0$459,600,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball45$50,000
    Match 41,004$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball2,641$100
    Match 360,625$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball48,770$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball345,184$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball780,614$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)8$100,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)245$200
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)697$200
    Match 3 (with Power Play)15,298$14.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)12,877$14.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)88,026$8.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)196,243$8.00
    Totals1,552,278—