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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 16,723,639
The crowdHeld 12% less 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 35 of 1,718 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 23 October 2018 — 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 3 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 34 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 2 of 5 numbers (14, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 August 2018 — its closest relative in 34 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 92% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 October 2018): 48 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 150 — the 76th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14, 47–48. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →28 had not appeared for 21 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% 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: 3 + PowerBall — 510 winners, 19% fewer than the 627 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 16,723,639 |
| 5 | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 12 | ZAR 17,563 |
| 4 | 249 | ZAR 552 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 510 | ZAR 305 |
| 3 | 10,433 | ZAR 12.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 7,842 | ZAR 12.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 43,773 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 77,323 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 0 | — |