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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 15,632,110
The crowdHeld 8% 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 742 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 741 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 30 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 47% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 82 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 741 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 (14, 33, 44) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 November 2014 — its closest relative in 741 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (27 December 2016): 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 164 — the 96th 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 →44 had not appeared for 15 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 9% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 16,950 winners, 8% fewer than the 19k 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 | 82,166 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 54,306 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 11,372 | ZAR 24.40 |
| Match 3 | 16,950 | ZAR 24.60 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 925 | ZAR 531 |
| Match 4 | 408 | ZAR 1,257 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 23 | ZAR 11,744 |
| Match 5 | 3 | ZAR 178,065 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 15,632,110 |