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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 15,000,000
The crowdHeld 13% 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 131 of 1,712 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.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 24 September 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 24 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 130 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 (6, 34, 36) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 31 July 2018 — its closest relative in 130 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 46% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (20 September 2019): 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 157 — the 82th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 34–35, 35–36. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →46 had not appeared for 15 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 17% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,525 winners, 13% fewer than the 11k 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 | 71,230 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 43,057 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 7,578 | ZAR 22.50 |
| Match 3 | 9,525 | ZAR 23.80 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 555 | ZAR 489 |
| Match 4 | 195 | ZAR 1,230 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 10 | ZAR 36,730 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 15,000,000 |