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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.
ZA · ball game
Latest drawSaturday, 10 October 2026
JackpotZAR 3,000,000
Top prizeNot won — 1 draws unwon
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 10 Oct 2026, 21:21 UTC.
6 numbers from 1–58, plus 1 from 1–56. 4,410 draws held here since 2010-01-02 — 293 under the current rules.
Lotto changed its number pool then, which started a new era. Only the 293 draws since count towards number statistics — mixing draws from before a rule change would make any frequency meaningless.
Your numbers, read by every tool
Type the numbers you always play. Has the line ever come up? How close has Lotto come? What has each number done, what does the line look like, and has the same set turned up anywhere else in the world?
Every tool, for this game
Each one opens with Lotto already selected. The line under every title is true of this game’s rules right now — not a promise about its next draw.

In 293 draws every number is expected about 30 times, and a ball favoured by more than 72% over its share would already have shown — see which ones strayed, and how far chance allows.

A number waits 10 draws on average; 5% of the time it waits 29 or more. It is never “due”.

The 6 numbers add up to about 177, give or take 39. Most tickets sit in that bell — and so do most draws.

43.3% of draws contain two numbers side by side. That is the rules talking, not luck.

1,653 possible pairs, each expected together 2.7 times so far — and about 17 will look “special” by chance alone.

All 58 numbers as a constellation of who appeared with whom — indistinguishable from a shuffled sky.

50% of draws repeat a number from the draw before. A whole draw repeating: 0.1% likely by now.

Sorted, the numbers sit about 8.4 apart on average — and every “spread” you can name is exactly as likely as every other.

It takes about 43 draws for every one of the 58 numbers to appear at least once. The last few are the slow ones.

2,266,620,048 possible tickets. Every one has a face — and a typicality score you can look up.

Seven independent tests of randomness run live against all 293 draws. Any of them can fail; watch whether they do.

The lowest number lands near 8, the highest near 51. Position is a property of sorting, not of the balls.

6/58 rescaled onto the same axes as every other game here. One law, many machines.

Six documented cases of a beaten lottery. Not one involved patterns in past draws.

What the world believes about 7, 8, 13 and 17 — and what every machine says back.

At 30 million tickets, an average line keeps about 71% of a jackpot it wins. Unpopular numbers keep more — and still lose money.

A full wheel of 10 numbers here is 210 tickets. A guarantee is real; a profit is not.

Five folk claims about 6/58 games, each answered with the closed form that kills it — never a tip for the next draw.
Take the record with youRSSJSON feedCSV, every drawDraw nights, in your calendarAPI
This game draws more than once. Each draw is its own record, read on its own: mixing them would put one draw’s numbers above another draw’s prize table.

Lock a past-only rule, score it on later draws, and compare every hit with the exact 6-of-58 overlap law.

This is a without-replacement ball game; the Digit Laboratory is for Pick 3 and Pick 4.
Not for this game
The Chernoff Map reads the straight tier of a digit game, which counts tickets on one exact number; a ball game has no such row.
Not for this game
This game draws once a day, so it has no second draw to compare its first with.
Not for this gameThis draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 10 October 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 67% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 106 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 6 numbers (5, 10, 14) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 22 August 2026 — its closest relative in 106 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 70% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (7 October 2026): 10, 29 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 133 — the 13th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 29–30. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →5 had not appeared for 14 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 1.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 54% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 + Bonus — 2,578 winners, 397% more than the 519 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | ZAR 3,000,000 |
| Match 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 375,159 |
| Match 5 | 19 | ZAR 32,909 |
| Match 4 + Bonus | 98 | ZAR 4,000 |
| Match 4 | 1,499 | ZAR 200 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 2,578 | ZAR 200 |
| Match 2 + Bonus | 23,073 | ZAR 30.00 |
| Match 3 | 28,540 | ZAR 20.00 |
| Totals | 55,808 | — |
What the top prize has been, draw by draw. It climbs while nobody wins and drops to the floor when somebody does — the sawtooth every rollover game draws.
The jackpot has gone 2 draws without a winner. The typical wait here is 6.8 draws.
Happenedwhat chance predicts
Completed waits between wins, against the geometric law those waits follow if every draw is an independent chance at the jackpot. The law takes its one parameter from the waits themselves, so this compares shape, not level.
Open any draw to read it by every tool — the same six readings the latest result gets above, each against what chance predicted at the time.
| Draws waited | Happened | Chance says |
|---|---|---|
| 0–1 | 7 | 3.1 |
| 2–3 | 0 | 2.4 |
| 4–5 | 0 | 1.8 |
| 6–7 | 2 | 1.4 |
| 8–9 | 1 | 1.0 |
| 10–11 | 1 | 0.8 |
| 12–13 | 0 | 0.6 |
| 14–15 | 0 | 0.5 |
| 16–17 | 0 | 0.3 |
| 18–19 | 0 | 0.3 |
| 20+ | 2 | 0.8 |
Every number was expected about that many times after 106 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.
Scored 22 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 105 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 6 numbers (23, 29, 33) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 August 2026 — its closest relative in 105 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 70% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 120 — the 7th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 9–10. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 had not appeared for 34 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 2.0× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 52% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 60 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 68% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 104 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 6 numbers (36, 40, 44) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 September 2026 — its closest relative in 104 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 70% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (30 September 2026): 7 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 170 — the 43th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. No two numbers side by side. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →18 had not appeared for 16 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 72% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 27 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 103 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 4 of 6 numbers (3, 4, 7, 46) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 September 2026 — its closest relative in 103 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 5.0% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (26 September 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 78 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 3–4, 6–7. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →3 had not appeared for 7 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 2.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 41% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 102 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 6 numbers (2, 40, 43) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 April 2026 — its closest relative in 102 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 69% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 September 2026): 43 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 215 — the 83th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 43–44. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →36 had not appeared for 23 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 86% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 29% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 101 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 6 numbers (8, 14) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 July 2026 — its closest relative in 101 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 September 2026): 6 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 131 — the 12th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. No two numbers side by side. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →43 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 64% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 89% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 100 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 6 numbers (24, 32, 44) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 July 2026 — its closest relative in 100 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 September 2026): 24, 44 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 48 repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 175 — the 48th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 23–24. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →32 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 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 76% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 24% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 99 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 6 numbers (24, 38, 49) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 January 2026 — its closest relative in 99 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 September 2026): 24 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 215 — the 83th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 24–25. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →38 had not appeared for 32 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 84% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 73% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 98 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 6 numbers (24, 30, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 September 2026 — its closest relative in 98 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (9 September 2026): 24, 45 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 181 — the 53th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. No two numbers side by side. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →17 had not appeared for 5 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 69% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 63% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 97 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 6 numbers (24, 34, 45) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 January 2026 — its closest relative in 97 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 67% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 September 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 184 — the 56th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. No two numbers side by side. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →47 had not appeared for 15 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 76% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 87% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 96 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 6 numbers (3, 7, 42) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 21 March 2026 — its closest relative in 96 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 67% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (2 September 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 133 — the 13th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 3–4. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →4 had not appeared for 11 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 57% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 13% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 95 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 6 numbers (9, 24, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 August 2026 — its closest relative in 95 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 66% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (29 August 2026): 30, 39 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 138 — the 16th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. No two numbers side by side. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →15 had not appeared for 10 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 55% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →