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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 11,136,932
The crowdHeld 5% 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 336 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 14 September 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 75 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 99% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 34 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 335 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, 36, 43) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 September 2021 — its closest relative in 335 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 80% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (10 September 2021): 43 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 5 repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 126 — the 48th 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 →26 had not appeared for 7 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 10% 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 — 19,141 winners, 5% more than the 18k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 2 | ZAR 5,568,466 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 199,940 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 14 | ZAR 8,943 |
| 4 | 468 | ZAR 453 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 953 | ZAR 251 |
| 3 | 19,141 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 13,998 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 72,771 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 118,037 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 225,385 | — |