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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 14,958,392
The crowdHeld 2% 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 574 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 26 December 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 80% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 57 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 573 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 (13, 19, 24) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 January 2020 — its closest relative in 573 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (22 December 2023): 24 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 140 — the 65th 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 →45 had not appeared for 24 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + PowerBall — 8,944 winners, 3% fewer than the 9.2k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 1 | ZAR 14,958,392 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 138,336 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 15 | ZAR 5,775 |
| 4 | 290 | ZAR 506 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 624 | ZAR 266 |
| 3 | 12,541 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 8,944 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 48,647 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 79,588 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 150,651 | — |