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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 52,000,000
The crowdHeld 5% 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 701 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 14 March 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 20% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 70 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 700 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 (7, 32, 46) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 July 2024 — its closest relative in 700 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (11 March 2025): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 2 repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 168 — the 90th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 45–46. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →45 had not appeared for 36 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 15% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 945 winners, 13% fewer than the 1.1k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 133,837 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 78,823 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 14,056 | ZAR 25.90 |
| Match 3 | 19,609 | ZAR 24.60 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 945 | ZAR 614 |
| Match 4 | 456 | ZAR 1,125 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 27 | ZAR 11,202 |
| Match 5 | 3 | ZAR 160,999 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 52,000,000 |