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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 17,315,012
The crowdHeld 5% 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 402 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.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 May 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 31 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 10% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 40 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 401 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 (21, 34, 42) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 March 2022 — its closest relative in 401 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 85% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (29 April 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 175 — the 93th 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 →34 had not appeared for 16 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 18% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + PowerBall — 849 winners, 7% fewer than the 914 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 17,315,012 |
| 5 | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 25 | ZAR 13,184 |
| 4 | 386 | ZAR 557 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 849 | ZAR 286 |
| 3 | 16,550 | ZAR 12.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 12,269 | ZAR 12.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 65,691 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 112,776 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 208,546 | — |