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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 51,334,514
The crowdHeld 11% 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 733 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 4 July 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 36 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 73 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 732 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 (15, 30, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 13 February 2024 — its closest relative in 732 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 July 2025): 30 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 115 — the 34th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →15 had not appeared for 22 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈5.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 19,667 winners, 11% fewer than the 22k 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 | 143,621 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 87,798 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 16,937 | ZAR 18.00 |
| Match 3 | 19,667 | ZAR 20.60 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,159 | ZAR 421 |
| Match 4 | 470 | ZAR 918 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 29 | ZAR 8,774 |
| Match 5 | 2 | ZAR 203,164 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | ZAR 51,334,514 |