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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 50,632,902
The crowdHeld 7% 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 226 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 21 August 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 23% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 225 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 (13, 33, 41) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 June 2019 — its closest relative in 225 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 66% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (18 August 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 159 — the 84th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 32–33, 40–41. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →33 had not appeared for 18 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 0.3× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 24% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 789 winners, 15% fewer than the 933 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 | 115,124 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 65,070 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 11,869 | ZAR 26.80 |
| Match 3 | 16,538 | ZAR 25.60 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 789 | ZAR 644 |
| Match 4 | 346 | ZAR 1,299 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 21 | ZAR 12,627 |
| Match 5 | 2 | ZAR 211,729 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 50,632,902 |