Loading…
Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Loading…
Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
PowerBall · draw
ResultPowerBall
JackpotZAR 5,147,524
The crowdHeld 7% 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 510 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 509 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 3 October 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 14% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 57 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 509 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 (34, 42, 43) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 January 2014 — its closest relative in 509 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 96% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (30 September 2014): 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 177 — the 99th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 42–43. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →20 had not appeared for 41 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 0.3× as often as an average ticket — less popular than 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 →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 614 winners, 8% fewer than the 668 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 | 80,361 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 17,135 | ZAR 17.00 |
| Match 3 | 24,202 | ZAR 18.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,398 | ZAR 333 |
| Match 4 | 614 | ZAR 369 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 43 | ZAR 13,889 |
| Match 5 | 2 | ZAR 425,292 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 5,147,524 |