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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 5,407,487
The crowdHeld 16% 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 512 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.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 23 May 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 60 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 72% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 51 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 511 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 (3, 18, 19) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 May 2023 — its closest relative in 511 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 91% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 May 2023): nothing 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 103 — the 22th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 18–19. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →30 had not appeared for 10 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 ≈2.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 11,995 winners, 16% more than the 10k 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 5,407,487 |
| 5 | 3 | ZAR 39,435 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 13 | ZAR 5,698 |
| 4 | 266 | ZAR 472 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 612 | ZAR 232 |
| 3 | 11,995 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 8,493 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 43,252 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 67,262 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 131,896 | — |