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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 5,288,211
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 780 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 779 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 12 May 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 62% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 87 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 779 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 (1, 3, 15) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 March 2017 — its closest relative in 779 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (9 May 2017): 37 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 86 — the 15th 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 →1 had not appeared for 14 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% 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 — 17,276 winners, 7% 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 | 82,487 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 55,248 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 12,075 | ZAR 20.70 |
| Match 3 | 17,276 | ZAR 21.70 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 956 | ZAR 462 |
| Match 4 | 394 | ZAR 1,169 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 25 | ZAR 28,907 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 5,288,211 |