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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 3,418,900
The crowdHeld 19% less 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 687 of 1,718 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 24 January 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 65 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 86% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 69 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 686 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 (10, 16, 20) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 12 April 2024 — its closest relative in 686 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 96% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 January 2025): 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 136 — the 60th 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 →41 had not appeared for 10 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈6.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 491 winners, 21% fewer than the 623 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 3,418,900 |
| 5 | 4 | ZAR 62,717 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 31 | ZAR 5,067 |
| 4 | 491 | ZAR 542 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 1,279 | ZAR 235 |
| 3 | 22,253 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 19,384 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 103,999 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 178,116 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 325,557 | — |