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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 14,976,378
The crowdHeld 60% 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 738 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 22 July 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 74 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 737 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, 9, 20) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 July 2025 — its closest relative in 737 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (18 July 2025): 5, 9 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 59 — the 1th 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 →7 had not appeared for 8 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 3.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 25,593 winners, 60% more than the 16k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 14,976,378 |
| 5 | 5 | ZAR 39,817 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 34 | ZAR 3,666 |
| 4 | 716 | ZAR 295 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 1,308 | ZAR 182 |
| 3 | 25,593 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 14,806 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 67,841 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 103,773 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 214,076 | — |