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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 30,000,000
The crowdHeld 33% 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 842 of 1,713 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 21 July 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 26% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 84 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 841 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 (40, 47, 50) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 June 2025 — its closest relative in 841 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (17 July 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 193 — the 98th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 40–41. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →41 had not appeared for 25 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 17% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 7,827 winners, 33% fewer than the 12k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 30,000,000 |
| Match 5 | 1 | ZAR 353,933 |
| Match 4 + Powerball | 10 | ZAR 17,697 |
| Match 4 | 178 | ZAR 2,000 |
| Match 3 + Powerball | 563 | ZAR 500 |
| Match 3 | 7,827 | ZAR 100 |
| Match 2 + Powerball | 8,491 | ZAR 100 |
| Match 1 + Powerball | 43,600 | ZAR 20.00 |
| Match 0 + Powerball | 76,101 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Totals | 136,771 | — |