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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 31,233,055
The crowdHeld 11% more 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 505 of 1,720 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 28 April 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 19% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 50 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 504 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 (12, 13, 15) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 12 October 2018 — its closest relative in 504 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 91% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 April 2023): 10 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 87 — the 10th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 12–13. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →13 had not appeared for 17 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 7% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 17,442 winners, 11% more than the 16k 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 31,233,055 |
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 166,901 |
| 4 + PowerBall | 15 | ZAR 6,967 |
| 4 | 420 | ZAR 421 |
| 3 + PowerBall | 901 | ZAR 222 |
| 3 | 17,442 | ZAR 9.00 |
| 2 + PowerBall | 12,444 | ZAR 10.00 |
| 1 + PowerBall | 63,837 | ZAR 7.00 |
| 0 + PowerBall | 101,937 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 196,997 | — |