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Powerball · draw

Thursday, 22 December 2016

ResultPowerball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 10
  3. 16
  4. 26
  5. 29
  6. 39
  7. 18

JackpotA$25,000,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018draw 199 of 267 under them

← 2016-12-15All recent draws2016-12-29 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed4 10 16 26 29 39 + 1829 Aug 2026, 09:26 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

Powerball was a 6/40 + 1/20 · Mar 2013 – Apr 2018 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 198 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 22 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 74% of every possible ticket.

  • sum51th
  • odd21th
  • low50th
  • widest gap28th
  • neighbours21th
  • spread82th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 30 of each

437times
1027times
1630times
2639times
29

Prize breakdown · 2016-12-22

  • Paid outA$10.5Mto 470k winning lines
  • 10 winnersA$25M

Where the money went

  • 621%A$2.2M
  • 719%A$2M
  • 843%A$4.6M
  • 4 other tiers17%A$1.8M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. 10A$25,000,000
  2. 2

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33times
3925times
Stars · a separate 1-of-20 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

1814times

Every number was expected about that many times after 198 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 6 numbers (4, 10, 16) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 November 2016 — its closest relative in 198 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 December 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 65% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

124

The numbers add up to 124 — the 51th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 123. No two numbers side by side. 58% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

29 had not appeared for 14 draws. A number waits about 7 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
7
A$81,540
  • 3118A$5,060
  • 42,188A$153
  • 54,027A$63.25
  • 656,901A$39.05
  • 777,942A$25.55
  • 8328,718A$13.90
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    10A$25,000,000
    27A$81,540
    3118A$5,060
    42,188A$153
    54,027A$63.25
    656,901A$39.05
    777,942A$25.55
    8328,718A$13.90