Curated top pick for every draw

Before every Extra 5 draw, our predictor publishes a top-five pick along with the bonus number. Members see it the moment it goes up.

Inside that pick are two extra layers: a most-confident subset of three balls our predictor weights highest, and a wider net of ten candidates it considered before settling.

And it’s not just Greece Powerball — the same treatment applies to Greek Lotto, Proto, Extra 5, and Eurojackpot. Five games, one membership.

Pick context: how the numbers stack up against history

Right under the pick is a context block that compares it to every Extra 5 draw on file. No prediction here — just an honest read of whether the set looks normal or unusual.

The block answers three questions visually:

• Sum — a horizontal scale from 15 to 215 shows the typical band shaded gold (where the middle half of historical draws sum to). Your pick’s sum is marked on it.
• Odd / even — one coloured dot per ball, so you can see the split at a glance.
• High / low — same idea, split across the high (18–35) and low (1–17) halves of the pool.

A green or amber pill labels the verdict in plain English: Inside the typical band, Above, or Below. That’s it. No claim about whether the pick will win — just whether it looks like the kind of set the lottery actually produces.

Compare your own numbers against the pattern

Got a set of lucky numbers? Type them in — or hit Quick Pick for a random five.

The same context block renders instantly for your choice. Same sum scale, same odd/even and high/low dots, same verdict pill. It runs entirely in your browser; no signup needed just to play with it.

Useful for stress-testing intuitions: see how a set you’d normally pick actually compares to the long-run pattern of Extra 5 draws.

Frequency heat map for all 45 numbers

Every ball, every number 1 to 35, laid out in a single grid — each one shaded by how often it’s come up in the window you choose.

The colour scale goes from cold gray (least drawn) through pale gold and orange up to red for the hottest number in the window. One look tells you where the activity is.

You pick the window: 10, 25, 50, 100, or 200 draws. Shorter windows reveal recent trends; longer windows smooth out noise.

Hot, cold and overdue tables

Three tables, three different questions about the archive.

Hot and cold are window-relative. In the last 10, 25, 50, 100, or 200 draws, which numbers have come up most? Which have gone missing? Each row shows the number, how many times it was drawn, when it was last seen, and how many days ago that was.

Overdue is always all-time. It answers a different question: which balls have gone the longest stretch in the entire archive without showing up?

Useful for understanding what the data has done. Not useful for predicting what it will do next — the calibration block further down is honest about that.

Top pairs and top triplets

Beyond single numbers: which combinations turn up together?

Top pairs uses the rolling window you’ve selected — the eight two-ball combos that have appeared together most often in your time slice.

Top triplets uses the full archive. Three-ball combinations are too sparse in a 30-draw window to be meaningful, so we go all-time and surface the eight most-frequent.

Each row shows the combination plus the count: how many actual draws contained those two (or three) balls together.

Track record — audited every draw

Every pick we publish gets scored against the actual draw result. Nothing is hidden.

A performance strip at the top of the section gives you the recent shape at a glance: last pick result, average across the last 10 picks, and best pick on record with the date.

Beneath that, the calibration block compares our live hit rate to the random baseline (5 in 45 per ball). We show the gap honestly. Any edge is statistical and small; this block is where we prove that, not hide from it.

Expected value at YesPlay payouts

Greece Powerball doesn’t sell tickets to South African players directly, so most members play it through YesPlay, our recommended sportsbook.

The EV calculator on the page lays out YesPlay’s actual payouts for each tier — 1 match, 2 matches, all the way through — and computes the break-even hit rate for every bet.

It’s the kind of number normally buried in a spreadsheet: now it’s right next to the pick. Size your stake against your confidence and the market odds, not vibes.