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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 124,602,697
The crowdHeld 12% 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 742 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 5 August 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 18% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 74 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 741 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 (10, 32, 40, 48) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 January 2023 — its closest relative in 741 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 7.6% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 August 2025): 34, 40 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 164 — the 87th 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 →32 had not appeared for 9 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 16% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈8.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 722 winners, 17% fewer than the 867 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 | 247,781 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 144,948 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 28,594 | ZAR 21.20 |
| Match 3 | 33,573 | ZAR 24.10 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,770 | ZAR 549 |
| Match 4 | 722 | ZAR 1,190 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 49 | ZAR 10,345 |
| Match 5 | 7 | ZAR 115,642 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 1 | ZAR 124,602,697 |