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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
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JackpotZAR 6,129,584
The crowdHeld 7% 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 431 of 1,719 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 12 August 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 29% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 43 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 430 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 (16, 20, 25) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 December 2021 — its closest relative in 430 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 87% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (9 August 2022): 16, 32 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 95 — the 15th 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 →20 had not appeared for 4 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 15,720 winners, 7% fewer than the 17k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 6,129,584 |
| 5 | 2 | ZAR 78,895 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 26 | ZAR 3,800 |
| 4 | 378 | ZAR 443 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 902 | ZAR 210 |
| 3 | 15,720 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 12,526 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 65,183 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 110,312 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 205,049 | — |