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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 26,793,609
The crowdHeld 3% 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 479 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 27 January 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 23 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 4% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 48 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 478 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 (34, 36, 50) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 15 October 2019 — its closest relative in 478 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 90% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (24 January 2023): 40 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 2 repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 187 — the 97th 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 →34 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 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 17% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 922 winners, 15% fewer than the 1.1k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 134,066 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 77,580 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 13,986 | ZAR 25.70 |
| Match 3 | 20,062 | ZAR 23.80 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 922 | ZAR 623 |
| Match 4 | 478 | ZAR 1,063 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 18 | ZAR 16,642 |
| Match 5 | 5 | ZAR 95,676 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 26,793,609 |