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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
ResultPowerBall
JackpotZAR 13,040,152
The crowdHeld 27% 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 389 of 1,712 under them
SourcesSources disagree on this draw — Primary reports different numbers. The reading most sources give is shown. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 March 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 388 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 (12, 15, 19) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 January 2021 — its closest relative in 388 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 84% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 March 2022): 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 71 — the 3th 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 →22 had not appeared for 18 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 2.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈5.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 882 winners, 61% more than the 547 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 156,288 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 103,184 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 21,474 | ZAR 17.80 |
| Match 3 | 30,474 | ZAR 16.70 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,722 | ZAR 355 |
| Match 4 | 882 | ZAR 613 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 48 | ZAR 6,645 |
| Match 5 | 4 | ZAR 127,333 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 1 | ZAR 13,040,152 |