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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 11,212,385
The crowdHeld 23% 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 409 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 27 May 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% 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 2 of 5 numbers (3, 40) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 May 2022 — its closest relative in 408 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (24 May 2022): 3, 40 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 165 — the 88th 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 →48 had not appeared for 22 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 15% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + PowerBall — 726 winners, 27% fewer than the 994 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 11,212,385 |
| 5 | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 13 | ZAR 23,498 |
| 4 | 310 | ZAR 643 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 726 | ZAR 310 |
| 3 | 14,507 | ZAR 13.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 11,757 | ZAR 12.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 68,868 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 122,728 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 218,909 | — |