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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 91,451,106
The crowdHeld 49% 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 456 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 8 November 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 13 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 0% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 46 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 455 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 (8, 10, 17) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 September 2021 — its closest relative in 455 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 89% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (4 November 2022): 8 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 51 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 7–8, 8–9, 9–10. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →10 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 10.0× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 31,855 winners, 49% more than the 21k 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 | 138,464 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 91,729 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 18,912 | ZAR 20.10 |
| Match 3 | 31,855 | ZAR 15.90 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,559 | ZAR 390 |
| Match 4 | 1,806 | ZAR 297 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 55 | ZAR 5,759 |
| Match 5 | 14 | ZAR 36,130 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 91,451,106 |