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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 96,000,000
The crowdHeld 6% 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 825 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 22 May 2026 — 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 82 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 824 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 (11, 22, 48) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 December 2018 — its closest relative in 824 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 May 2026): 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 106 — the 24th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 10–11. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →15 had not appeared for 17 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈5.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 + Powerball — 1,641 winners, 21% more than the 1.4k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 + Powerball | 0 | ZAR 96,000,000 |
| Match 5 | 1 | ZAR 293,490 |
| Match 4 + Powerball | 30 | ZAR 6,126 |
| Match 4 | 581 | ZAR 536 |
| Match 3 + Powerball | 1,641 | ZAR 215 |
| Match 3 | 27,330 | ZAR 10.80 |
| Match 2 + Powerball | 21,763 | ZAR 10.10 |
| Match 1 + Powerball | 107,401 | ZAR 7.50 |
| Match 0 + Powerball | 167,130 | ZAR 5.00 |
| Totals | 325,877 | — |