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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 10,365,692
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 793 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 792 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 27 June 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 88 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 792 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 (26, 30, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 21 October 2014 — its closest relative in 792 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 June 2017): 45 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 160 — the 95th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →30 had not appeared for 12 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 893 winners, 3% more than the 869 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 | 73,327 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 51,966 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 11,189 | ZAR 22.60 |
| Match 3 | 16,410 | ZAR 23.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 893 | ZAR 499 |
| Match 4 | 381 | ZAR 1,222 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 22 | ZAR 11,143 |
| Match 5 | 3 | ZAR 161,608 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 10,365,692 |