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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
plusPowerBall
JackpotZAR 10,881,219
The crowdHeld 8% 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 375 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 28 January 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 29 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 8% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 37 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 374 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 (22, 47, 48) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 October 2020 — its closest relative in 374 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 83% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 January 2022): 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 210 — the 100th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 47–48, 48–49. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →22 had not appeared for 19 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 19% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈7.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + PowerBall — 19,838 winners, 16% fewer than the 24k 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 10,881,219 |
| 5 | 2 | ZAR 155,653 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 43 | ZAR 4,533 |
| 4 | 761 | ZAR 434 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 1,479 | ZAR 252 |
| 3 | 28,888 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 19,838 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 110,023 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 203,013 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 364,047 | — |