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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 3,998,517
The crowdHeld 25% 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 674 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 10 December 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 20 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 67 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 673 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 2 of 5 numbers (17, 20) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 22 October 2024 — its closest relative in 673 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (6 December 2024): 18 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 78 — the 5th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →13 had not appeared for 29 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 1.9× 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 ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 14,915 winners, 25% more than the 12k 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 3,998,517 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 137,593 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 13 | ZAR 6,627 |
| 4 | 352 | ZAR 415 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 745 | ZAR 221 |
| 3 | 14,915 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 10,248 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 49,828 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 77,667 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 153,769 | — |