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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
PowerBall · draw
ResultPowerBall
JackpotZAR 50,371,493
The crowdHeld 8% more than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/45 + 1/20 · Oct 2009 – Jun 2018draw 27 of 1,161 under them
SourcesSources disagree on this draw — Primary reports different numbers. The reading most sources give is shown. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
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 26 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 26 January 2010 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 55 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 57% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 26 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 →Shares 2 of 5 numbers (15, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 23 October 2009 — its closest relative in 26 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 91% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (22 January 2010): nothing carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 77 — the 8th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 2–3. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →36 had not appeared for 23 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 →A line like this is played about 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈7.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 51,689 winners, 8% more than the 48k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | — |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 147,187 | ZAR 11.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 31,353 | ZAR 19.00 |
| Match 3 | 51,689 | ZAR 17.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 2,559 | ZAR 378 |
| Match 4 | 1,235 | ZAR 382 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 56 | ZAR 22,184 |
| Match 5 | 3 | ZAR 589,750 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 50,371,493 |