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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
ResultLotto
JackpotZAR 2,477,436
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 686 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 685 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 3 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 55 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 57% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 84 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 685 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 (7, 8, 11, 44) with the draw of 4 February 2015 — its closest relative in 685 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 49% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (30 July 2016): 43 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 133 — the 30th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 7–8, 43–44. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →8 had not appeared for 15 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 31% 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: 4 — 2,923 winners, 10% fewer than the 3.2k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 2,477,436 |
| 5 + Bonus | 3 | ZAR 89,392 |
| 5 | 49 | ZAR 4,523 |
| 4 + Bonus | 197 | ZAR 2,059 |
| 4 | 2,923 | ZAR 126 |
| 3 + Bonus | 3,902 | ZAR 96.00 |
| 3 | 57,490 | ZAR 50.00 |