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Powerball Double Play · draw

Saturday, 31 December 2022

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 25
  3. 29
  4. 54
  5. 56
  6. 9

The crowdHeld 14% 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 Aug 2021draw 213 of 806 under them

← 2022-12-28All recent draws2023-01-02 →

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 25 29 54 56 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 31 December 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

72oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 72 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 95% of every possible ticket.

  • sum41th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread72th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 15 of each

124times
2515times
2919times
5412times
56

Prize breakdown · 2022-12-31

  • Lines in play≈ 25Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$14.2Mto 976k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 26lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.09

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball13%$1.9M
  • Match 0 plus Powerball27%$3.8M
  • Match 542%$6.0M
  • 7 other tiers18%$2.5M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.09 by chance

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17times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each

96times

Every number was expected about that many times after 212 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, 54) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 December 2022 — its closest relative in 212 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (28 December 2022): 56 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

165

The numbers add up to 165 — the 41th 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

29 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 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 31% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$258,800,000
  • Match 50≈ 2.1 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in30≈ 27 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4418≈ 682 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in1,462≈ 1.7k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in31,830≈ 36k by chance$7.00
  • Match 328,025≈ 43k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in256,141≈ 271k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in649,678≈ 650k by chance$4.00
  • Match 53$2,000,000
  • Match 4141$300
  • Match 38,197$21.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈25M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 418 winners, 39% fewer than the 682 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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$258,800,000
    Match 50$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball26$50,000
    Match 4418$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball1,117$100
    Match 328,025$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball24,394$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball195,637$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball493,782$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)3$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)4$150,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)141$300
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)345$300
    Match 3 (with Power Play)8,197$21.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)7,436$21.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)60,504$12.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)155,896$12.00
    Totals975,925—