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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 113,443,854
The crowdHeld about as often as 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 202 of 1,719 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 29 May 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 61% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 201 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 4 of 5 numbers (4, 9, 24, 34) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 September 2018 — its closest relative in 201 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 2.1% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (26 May 2020): 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 103 — the 22th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. No two numbers side by side. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →4 had not appeared for 13 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 ≈2.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + PowerBall — 555 winners, 4% fewer than the 576 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 113,443,854 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 110,649 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 15 | ZAR 4,619 |
| 4 | 250 | ZAR 469 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 555 | ZAR 239 |
| 3 | 10,839 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 8,172 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 43,154 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 71,083 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 134,069 | — |