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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 22,090,888
The crowdHeld 14% 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 57 of 1,717 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 8 January 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 14% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 56 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 1 of 5 numbers (25) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 January 2019 — its closest relative in 56 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (4 January 2019): 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 150 — the 76th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 38–39. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →38 had not appeared for 42 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 9% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 17,538 winners, 14% fewer than the 21k 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 22,090,888 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 175,053 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 22 | ZAR 4,982 |
| 4 | 387 | ZAR 480 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 1,064 | ZAR 197 |
| 3 | 17,538 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 14,943 | ZAR 8.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 79,235 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 133,194 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 0 | — |