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PowerBall · draw

Friday, 4 December 2009

ResultPowerBall

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 23
  3. 27
  4. 38
  5. 43
  6. 4

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/45 + 1/20 · Oct 2009 – Jun 2018draw 13 of 1,161 under them

← 2009-12-01All recent draws2009-12-08 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Backup 3 (community) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.

  • Backup 3community17 23 27 38 43 + 428 Aug 2026, 21:01 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

PowerBall was a 5/45 + 1/20 · Oct 2009 – Jun 2018 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 12 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 December 2009 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

45oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 31% of every possible ticket.

  • sum88th
  • odd89th
  • low32th
  • widest gap22th
  • neighbours31th
  • spread27th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

172times
232times
271time
382times
43

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2times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each

41time

Every number was expected about that many times after 12 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 (23, 43) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 November 2009 — its closest relative in 12 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 67% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 December 2009): nothing carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

148

The numbers add up to 148 — the 88th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. No two numbers side by side. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

27 had not appeared for 9 draws. A number waits about 9 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.

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

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