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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 58,740,409
The crowdHeld 4% 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 143 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 142 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 18 April 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 76% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 16 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 142 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 2 of 5 numbers (17, 41) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 March 2017 — its closest relative in 142 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 April 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 133 — the 73th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 115. Side-by-side numbers: 34–35. 39% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →6 had not appeared for 9 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 455 winners, 22% fewer than the 585 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 | 1 | ZAR 58,740,409 |
| 5 | 3 | ZAR 111,401 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 40 | ZAR 4,224 |
| 4 | 455 | ZAR 705 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 1,259 | ZAR 244 |
| 3 | 21,948 | ZAR 11.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 16,098 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 72,767 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 101,258 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 0 | — |