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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 70,712,877
The crowdHeld 2% 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 457 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 11 November 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 37 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 17% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 46 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 456 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 (45, 47, 50) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 October 2022 — its closest relative in 456 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 89% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (8 November 2022): 47 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 209 — the 100th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 44–45. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →23 had not appeared for 13 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 ≈5.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 621 winners, 16% more than the 536 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 70,712,877 |
| 5 | 2 | ZAR 133,417 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 25 | ZAR 6,683 |
| 4 | 621 | ZAR 456 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 1,194 | ZAR 268 |
| 3 | 23,080 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 16,158 | ZAR 12.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 86,230 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 153,135 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 280,445 | — |