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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 44,742,154
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 476 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.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 January 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 62% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 48 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 475 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 2 of 5 numbers (6, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 June 2022 — its closest relative in 475 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 January 2023): 41 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 116 — the 35th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 5–6. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →37 had not appeared for 46 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + PowerBall — 648 winners, 13% fewer than the 746 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 44,742,154 |
| 5 | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 21 | ZAR 12,254 |
| 4 | 296 | ZAR 567 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 648 | ZAR 293 |
| 3 | 13,117 | ZAR 12.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 10,391 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 55,709 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 92,031 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 172,213 | — |