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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 24,931,230
The crowdHeld 13% less 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 439 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 438 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 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 72 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 97% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 49 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 438 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 (10, 15, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 May 2013 — its closest relative in 438 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 January 2014): 15 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 116 — the 51th 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 →38 had not appeared for 36 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈5.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 28,624 winners, 13% fewer than the 33k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | — |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 101,540 | ZAR 9.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 21,717 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 3 | 28,624 | ZAR 17.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,831 | ZAR 289 |
| Match 4 | 779 | ZAR 331 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 53 | ZAR 12,823 |
| Match 5 | 10 | ZAR 96,791 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 1 | ZAR 24,931,230 |