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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 105,000,000
The crowdHeld 11% 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 827 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 29 May 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 47% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 83 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 826 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 (14, 22, 27) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 23 February 2024 — its closest relative in 826 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (26 May 2026): 27, 36 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 116 — the 35th 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 →14 had not appeared for 14 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 7% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈7.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 927 winners, 26% more than the 737 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 + Powerball | 0 | ZAR 105,000,000 |
| Match 5 | 1 | ZAR 367,147 |
| Match 4 + Powerball | 55 | ZAR 4,180 |
| Match 4 | 927 | ZAR 421 |
| Match 3 + Powerball | 1,820 | ZAR 242 |
| Match 3 | 35,934 | ZAR 10.20 |
| Match 2 + Powerball | 25,129 | ZAR 11.00 |
| Match 1 + Powerball | 129,699 | ZAR 7.50 |
| Match 0 + Powerball | 210,712 | ZAR 5.00 |
| Totals | 404,277 | — |