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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 · plus
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JackpotZAR 15,784,927
The crowdHeld 11% 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 53 of 1,161 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. 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 52 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 7 June 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 30% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 52 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 (2, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 February 2016 — its closest relative in 52 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 June 2016): 20 carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 13 repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 66 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →14 had not appeared for 25 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 2.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 410 winners, 22% fewer than the 525 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 15,784,927 |
| 5 | 2 | ZAR 122,050 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 21 | ZAR 5,877 |
| 4 | 410 | ZAR 571 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 950 | ZAR 236 |
| 3 | 18,159 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 12,619 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 61,640 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 90,824 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 0 | — |