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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 26,824,935
The crowdHeld 20% 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 544 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 12 September 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 14% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 54 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 543 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 (1, 20, 42) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 August 2023 — its closest relative in 543 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 93% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (8 September 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 81 — the 7th 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 →10 had not appeared for 14 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% 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 — 16,831 winners, 20% more than the 14k 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 26,824,935 |
| 5 | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 17 | ZAR 16,477 |
| 4 | 364 | ZAR 502 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 865 | ZAR 239 |
| 3 | 16,831 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 12,159 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 59,024 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 91,137 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 180,397 | — |