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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 7,654,563
The crowdHeld about as often as 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 792 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 791 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 23 June 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 70% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 88 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 791 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 30 December 2016 — its closest relative in 791 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (20 June 2017): 14 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 156 — the 93th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 44–45. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →44 had not appeared for 16 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 8% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 778 winners, 13% fewer than the 899 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 | 75,869 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 52,312 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 11,203 | ZAR 23.50 |
| Match 3 | 17,400 | ZAR 22.70 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 778 | ZAR 599 |
| Match 4 | 409 | ZAR 1,189 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 19 | ZAR 13,481 |
| Match 5 | 3 | ZAR 168,846 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 7,654,563 |