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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 · plus
plusPowerBall
JackpotZAR 493,861,200
The crowdHeld 6% more than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 1/20 · since Jun 2018draw 20 of 1,717 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 31 August 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 21% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 19 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 1 of 5 numbers (35) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 August 2018 — its closest relative in 19 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (28 August 2018): 35 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 101 — the 20th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →50 had not appeared for 11 draws. A number waits about 10 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more 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 ≈3.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + PowerBall — 14,639 winners, 16% more than the 13k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 23,591,079 |
| 5 | 2 | ZAR 94,093 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 24 | ZAR 4,910 |
| 4 | 336 | ZAR 594 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 904 | ZAR 249 |
| 3 | 17,774 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 14,639 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 67,192 | ZAR 7,350 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 108,665 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 0 | — |