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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 30,872,007
The crowdHeld 8% 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 203 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 2 June 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 65% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 202 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 (29, 41, 46) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 December 2019 — its closest relative in 202 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 62% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (29 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 136 — the 60th 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 →29 had not appeared for 17 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 9% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 608 winners, 13% fewer than the 698 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 | 86,147 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 51,464 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 9,497 | ZAR 22.90 |
| Match 3 | 12,161 | ZAR 23.70 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 608 | ZAR 570 |
| Match 4 | 319 | ZAR 961 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 13 | ZAR 13,903 |
| Match 5 | 1 | ZAR 288,619 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 30,872,007 |