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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 10,104,852
The crowdHeld 14% 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 409 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 27 May 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 54% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 41 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 408 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 (24, 26, 27) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 June 2019 — its closest relative in 408 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 86% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (24 May 2022): 7 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 134 — the 57th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 29 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% 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: Match 3 — 20,531 winners, 14% more than the 18k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 116,845 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 75,858 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 14,510 | ZAR 22.00 |
| Match 3 | 20,531 | ZAR 20.70 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 984 | ZAR 519 |
| Match 4 | 446 | ZAR 1,013 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 26 | ZAR 26,619 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 10,104,852 |