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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 100,000,000
The crowdHeld 6% 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 147 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 19 November 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 43 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 28% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 15 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 146 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 (16, 43, 44) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 July 2019 — its closest relative in 146 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 50% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 November 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 110 — the 29th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 3–4, 43–44. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 7% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 927 winners, 12% fewer than the 1.1k 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 | 130,612 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 79,457 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 14,779 | ZAR 22.90 |
| Match 3 | 18,822 | ZAR 24.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 927 | ZAR 584 |
| Match 4 | 407 | ZAR 1,177 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 18 | ZAR 15,693 |
| Match 5 | 2 | ZAR 225,538 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 100,000,000 |