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Powerball Double Play · draw

Saturday, 21 December 2024

ResultPowerball Double Play

Single source
  1. 29
  2. 45
  3. 46
  4. 51
  5. 59
  6. 3

The crowdHeld 42% 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 522 of 806 under them

← 2024-12-18All recent draws2024-12-23 →

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 feed29 45 46 51 59 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 December 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

25oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 25 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 4% of every possible ticket.

  • sum89th
  • odd89th
  • low10th
  • widest gap19th
  • neighbours86th
  • spread10th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 38 of each

2942times
4533times
4631times
5141times
59

Prize breakdown · 2024-12-21

  • Lines in play≈ 12Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out$9.6Mto 503k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 24lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Powerball0 winnerschance said 0.04

Where the money went

  • Match 4 plus Powerball11%$1.1M
  • Match 0 plus Powerball19%$1.9M
  • Match 542%$4.0M
  • 8 other tiers27%$2.6M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Powerball0≈ 0.04 by chance

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44times
Stars · a separate 1-of-26 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each

317times

Every number was expected about that many times after 521 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 (29, 45, 51) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 September 2023 — its closest relative in 521 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 61% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 December 2024): 45 carried over. Chance says 32% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (4% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

230

The numbers add up to 230 — the 89th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 175. Side-by-side numbers: 45–46. 27% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

46 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 54% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
$92,100,000
  • Match 51≈ 1.0 by chance$1,000,000
  • Match 4 plus Powerball2 rows folded in14≈ 13 by chance$50,000
  • Match 4343≈ 327 by chance$100
  • Match 3 plus Powerball2 rows folded in1,053≈ 823 by chance$100
  • Match 2 plus Powerball2 rows folded in20,415≈ 17k by chance$7.00
  • Match 321,950≈ 21k by chance$7.00
  • Match 1 plus Powerball2 rows folded in140,009≈ 130k by chance$4.00
  • Match 0 plus Powerball2 rows folded in311,260≈ 311k by chance$4.00
  • Match 52$2,000,000
  • Match 4167$300
  • Match 37,929$21.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈12M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Powerball — 1,053 winners, 28% more than the 823 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$92,100,000
    Match 51$1,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball10$50,000
    Match 4343$100
    Match 3 plus Powerball770$100
    Match 321,950$7.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball15,103$7.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball104,663$4.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball233,721$4.00
    Match 5 (with Power Play)2$2,000,000
    Match 4 plus Powerball (with Power Play)4$150,000
    Match 4 (with Power Play)167$300
    Match 3 plus Powerball (with Power Play)283$300
    Match 3 (with Power Play)7,929$21.00
    Match 2 plus Powerball (with Power Play)5,312$21.00
    Match 1 plus Powerball (with Power Play)35,346$12.00
    Match 0 plus Powerball (with Power Play)77,539$12.00
    Totals503,143—