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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 7,114,346
The crowdHeld about as often as 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 263 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 262 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 12 June 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 67 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 89% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 29 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 262 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 (2, 23, 33) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 April 2018 — its closest relative in 262 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 82% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (8 June 2018): 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 93 — the 21th 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 →33 had not appeared for 8 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% 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: 2 + PowerBall — 10,403 winners, 12% more than the 9.3k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + PowerBall | 0 | ZAR 7,114,346 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 182,913 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 18 | ZAR 5,138 |
| 4 | 327 | ZAR 536 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 811 | ZAR 207 |
| 3 | 13,704 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 10,403 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 45,429 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 61,954 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 0 | — |