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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 8,605,348
The crowdHeld 3% 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 103 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 18 June 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 35% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 102 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 (25, 38, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 January 2019 — its closest relative in 102 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 39% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 June 2019): nothing 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 161 — the 85th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 38–39. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →38 had not appeared for 8 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 13% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + PowerBall — 5,890 winners, 11% fewer than the 6.6k 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 8,605,348 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 99,102 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 6 | ZAR 10,343 |
| 4 | 201 | ZAR 523 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 412 | ZAR 288 |
| 3 | 8,498 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 5,890 | ZAR 12.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 32,588 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 56,815 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 0 | — |