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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 33,606,907
The crowdHeld 27% 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 306 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 305 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 9 October 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 26% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 34 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 305 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 (3, 5, 22) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 April 2012 — its closest relative in 305 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 87% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 October 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 62 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 5–6. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →22 had not appeared for 19 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 2.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 35,616 winners, 27% more than the 28k 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 | 86,200 | ZAR 12.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 18,638 | ZAR 20.00 |
| Match 3 | 35,616 | ZAR 16.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,361 | ZAR 449 |
| Match 4 | 840 | ZAR 354 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 48 | ZAR 16,330 |
| Match 5 | 3 | ZAR 372,117 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 33,606,907 |