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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 6,032,676
The crowdHeld 8% more 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 265 of 1,718 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 8 January 2021 — 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 27% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 264 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 (23, 33) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 August 2020 — its closest relative in 264 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 January 2021): 19 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 127 — the 49th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20, 32–33. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →23 had not appeared for 41 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 ≈3.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 15,521 winners, 8% more than the 14k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 6,032,676 |
| 5 | 2 | ZAR 87,748 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 9 | ZAR 12,210 |
| 4 | 311 | ZAR 599 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 698 | ZAR 301 |
| 3 | 15,521 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 11,254 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 58,064 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 93,384 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 179,243 | — |