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Powerball Double Play · draw

Saturday, 16 December 2023

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 9
  2. 39
  3. 41
  4. 46
  5. 65
  6. 3

The crowdHeld 30% 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 363 of 806 under them

← 2023-12-13All recent draws2023-12-18 →

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 feed9 39 41 46 65 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 December 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

44oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 28% of every possible ticket.

  • sum71th
  • odd89th
  • low10th
  • widest gap78th
  • neighbours37th
  • spread75th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each

927times
3936times
4130times
4624times
65

Prize breakdown · 2023-12-16

  • Lines in play≈ 25Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$12.4Mto 1.0M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.09

Where the money went

  • Match 516%$2.0M
  • Match 4 plus Powerball28%$3.4M
  • Match 0 plus Powerball30%$3.8M
  • 7 other tiers26%$3.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.09 by chance

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20times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 14 of each

312times

Every number was expected about that many times after 362 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 (39, 65) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 19 August 2023 — its closest relative in 362 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 December 2023): 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

200

The numbers add up to 200 — the 71th 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

46 had not appeared for 27 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 48% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$520,000,000
  • Match 52≈ 2.2 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in46≈ 28 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4762≈ 689 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in2,297≈ 1.7k by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in41,941≈ 36k by chance$7.00
  • Match 344,225≈ 43k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in289,332≈ 274k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in656,695≈ 657k by chance$4.00
  • Match 50$2,000,000
  • Match 4262$300
  • Match 313,722$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 3 plus Powerball — 2,297 winners, 32% more than the 1.7k 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$520,000,000
    Match 52$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball35$50,000
    Match 4762$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball1,756$100
    Match 344,225$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball32,420$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball225,536$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball514,168$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)0$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)11$150,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)262$300
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)541$300
    Match 3 (with Power Play)13,722$21.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)9,521$21.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)63,796$12.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)142,527$12.00
    Totals1,049,284—