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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 5,200,000
The crowdHeld 20% 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 893 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 892 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 June 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 45% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 99 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 892 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 4 of 5 numbers (3, 31, 35, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 15 November 2013 — its closest relative in 892 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 14% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (8 June 2018): 3 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 111 — the 44th 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 →35 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 12,855 winners, 20% fewer than the 16k 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 | 71,343 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 51,300 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 11,025 | ZAR 18.50 |
| Match 3 | 12,855 | ZAR 23.80 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 784 | ZAR 460 |
| Match 4 | 328 | ZAR 1,147 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 20 | ZAR 9,906 |
| Match 5 | 1 | ZAR 391,791 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 5,200,000 |