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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 34,486,056
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 472 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.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 January 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 44% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 47 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 471 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 (2, 20, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 12 August 2022 — its closest relative in 471 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 90% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (30 December 2022): 2 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 89 — the 11th 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 34 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 1 + PowerBall — 64,363 winners, 6% more than the 61k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 34,486,056 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 172,412 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 14 | ZAR 7,711 |
| 4 | 367 | ZAR 498 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 791 | ZAR 261 |
| 3 | 15,825 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 11,983 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 64,363 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 100,048 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 193,392 | — |