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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 28,958,493
The crowdHeld about as often as 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 504 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 April 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 74 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 98% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 50 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 503 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 (10, 18, 33) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 July 2018 — its closest relative in 503 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 91% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 April 2023): 10 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 11 repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 132 — the 55th 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 →22 had not appeared for 19 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 ≈3.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + PowerBall — 11,014 winners, 6% more than the 10k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 28,958,493 |
| 5 | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 12 | ZAR 19,678 |
| 4 | 314 | ZAR 491 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 748 | ZAR 233 |
| 3 | 13,735 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 11,014 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 57,133 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 89,735 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 172,691 | — |