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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 70,000,000
The crowdHeld 28% 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 595 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 8 March 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 37 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 18% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 59 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 594 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 (19, 27, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 August 2023 — its closest relative in 594 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 March 2024): 27 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 99 — the 18th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 18–19, 27–28. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →7 had not appeared for 25 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 2.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 27,502 winners, 28% more than the 22k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 139,870 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 94,309 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 19,838 | ZAR 18.30 |
| Match 3 | 27,502 | ZAR 17.60 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,427 | ZAR 408 |
| Match 4 | 644 | ZAR 798 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 25 | ZAR 12,132 |
| Match 5 | 3 | ZAR 161,446 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 70,000,000 |