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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 47,992,757
The crowdHeld 15% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/45 + 1/20 · Oct 2009 – Jun 2018draw 138 of 1,161 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
PowerBall was a 5/45 + 1/20 · Oct 2009 – Jun 2018 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 137 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 31 March 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 71% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 15 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 137 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 (13, 34, 42) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 May 2016 — its closest relative in 137 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 59% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (28 March 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 46% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (5% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 137 — the 78th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. No two numbers side by side. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →42 had not appeared for 28 draws. A number waits about 9 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 10% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈5.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 702 winners, 24% fewer than the 921 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 47,992,757 |
| 5 | 6 | ZAR 73,914 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 46 | ZAR 4,875 |
| 4 | 702 | ZAR 606 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 1,625 | ZAR 251 |
| 3 | 30,378 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 21,724 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 105,555 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 159,429 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 0 | — |