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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 1,622,828
The crowdHeld 17% 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 356 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 23 November 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 19 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 36 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 355 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 (15, 21, 22) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 12 November 2021 — its closest relative in 355 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 82% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 November 2021): 16, 21 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 3 repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 99 — the 18th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16, 21–22. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →25 had not appeared for 4 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 2.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 11,968 winners, 17% more than the 10k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 1,622,828 |
| 5 | 4 | ZAR 29,769 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 17 | ZAR 4,386 |
| 4 | 302 | ZAR 418 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 607 | ZAR 235 |
| 3 | 11,968 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 8,987 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 42,873 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 66,264 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 131,022 | — |