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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.
Lotto · draw · plus 1
plus 1Lotto
JackpotZAR 1,000,000
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
Rules6/49 + 1/49 · Jan 2010 – Aug 2017draw 243 of 1,577 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/49 + 1/49 · Jan 2010 – Aug 2017 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 242 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 5 May 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 14% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 30 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 242 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, 7, 16, 46) with the draw of 2 February 2011 — its closest relative in 242 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 21% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (2 May 2012): 3 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 114 — the 14th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →46 had not appeared for 21 draws. A number waits about 8 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 26% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈7.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 9,548 winners, 11% more than the 8.6k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 1,000,000 |
| 5 + Bonus | 4 | ZAR 207,185 |
| 5 | 110 | ZAR 6,829 |
| 4 + Bonus | 279 | ZAR 2,276 |
| 4 | 6,081 | ZAR 136 |
| 3 + Bonus | 9,548 | ZAR 86.00 |
| 3 | 114,568 | ZAR 10.00 |