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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 7,918,542
The crowdHeld 14% 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 676 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 17 December 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 24% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 68 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 675 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 (5, 22, 50) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 19 April 2024 — its closest relative in 675 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 96% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 December 2024): 7, 22 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 109 — the 28th 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 →50 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 1.6× 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 ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + PowerBall — 726 winners, 14% more than the 634 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 7,918,542 |
| 5 | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 11 | ZAR 19,935 |
| 4 | 280 | ZAR 511 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 726 | ZAR 222 |
| 3 | 13,758 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 9,966 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 49,645 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 78,299 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 152,685 | — |