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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 9,397,928
The crowdHeld 3% 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 461 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.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 25 November 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 25 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 46 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 460 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 (7, 8, 12) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 September 2022 — its closest relative in 460 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 89% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (22 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 75 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 7–8. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →1 had not appeared for 18 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 2.0× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈5.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + PowerBall — 1,568 winners, 14% more than the 1.4k 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 9,397,928 |
| 5 | 8 | ZAR 30,856 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 28 | ZAR 5,520 |
| 4 | 560 | ZAR 468 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 1,568 | ZAR 189 |
| 3 | 26,975 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 22,048 | ZAR 8.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 109,185 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 169,379 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 329,751 | — |