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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 1,262,800
The crowdHeld 13% 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 831 of 1,712 under them
Sources2 independent sources agree, none of them official. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 June 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 68 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 91% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 83 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 830 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 (23, 30, 45) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 November 2025 — its closest relative in 830 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (9 June 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 132 — the 55th 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 62 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 ≈3.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 12,628 winners, 13% fewer than the 15k 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 5 plus PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| Match 5 | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| Match 4 plus PowerBall | 18 | ZAR 39,927 |
| Match 4 | 272 | ZAR 2,000 |
| Match 3 plus PowerBall | 811 | ZAR 500 |
| Match 3 | 12,628 | ZAR 100 |
| Match 2 plus PowerBall | 11,103 | ZAR 100 |
| Match 1 plus PowerBall | 57,173 | ZAR 20.00 |
| Match PowerBall | 94,294 | ZAR 10.00 |