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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 132,000,000
The crowdHeld 7% 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 832 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 16 June 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 40% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 83 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 831 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, 17, 43) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 August 2021 — its closest relative in 831 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 June 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 1 repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 97 — the 16th 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 →20 had not appeared for 10 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 ≈2.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,600 winners, 7% fewer than the 10k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 + Powerball | 0 | ZAR 132,000,000 |
| Match 5 | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| Match 4 + Powerball | 15 | ZAR 18,906 |
| Match 4 | 197 | ZAR 1,000 |
| Match 3 + Powerball | 572 | ZAR 250 |
| Match 3 | 9,600 | ZAR 50.00 |
| Match 2 + Powerball | 8,216 | ZAR 50.00 |
| Match 1 + Powerball | 42,455 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Match 0 + Powerball | 66,748 | ZAR 5.00 |
| Totals | 127,803 | — |