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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 7,348,263
The crowdHeld 17% 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 707 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 4 April 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 31% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 71 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 706 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 4 of 5 numbers (2, 3, 10, 33) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 February 2020 — its closest relative in 706 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 7.3% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 April 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 62 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 2–3. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →10 had not appeared for 20 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 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 ≈6.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 31,512 winners, 17% more than the 27k 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 7,348,263 |
| 5 | 3 | ZAR 103,042 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 40 | ZAR 4,839 |
| 4 | 666 | ZAR 492 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 1,570 | ZAR 236 |
| 3 | 31,512 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 21,422 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 109,522 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 174,505 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 339,240 | — |