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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
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JackpotZAR 7,529,424
The crowdHeld 16% 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 248 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 6 November 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 34% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 247 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 2 of 5 numbers (16, 46) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 October 2020 — its closest relative in 247 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 November 2020): 16 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 121 — the 41th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →4 had not appeared for 31 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 15,262 winners, 16% fewer than the 18k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 7,529,424 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 189,015 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 19 | ZAR 6,229 |
| 4 | 316 | ZAR 635 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 824 | ZAR 275 |
| 3 | 15,262 | ZAR 12.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 12,417 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 69,827 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 117,473 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 216,139 | — |