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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 19,916,768
The crowdHeld 34% 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 233 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 232 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 24 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 94% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 232 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 3 of 5 numbers (7, 26, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 27 August 2010 — its closest relative in 232 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 78% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (20 January 2012): 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 84 — the 13th 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 →4 had not appeared for 37 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 1.4× 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 ≈3.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 990 winners, 75% more than the 565 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.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | — |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 67,886 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 15,553 | ZAR 17.00 |
| Match 3 | 29,597 | ZAR 13.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,472 | ZAR 285 |
| Match 4 | 990 | ZAR 207 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 55 | ZAR 9,806 |
| Match 5 | 4 | ZAR 192,027 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 2 | ZAR 9,958,384 |