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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 66,378,256
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
Rules6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025draw 46 of 2,540 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 45 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 6 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 10 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 0% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 45 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 (31, 33, 43) with the draw of 23 September 2017 — its closest relative in 45 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 51% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 January 2018): 31, 43 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 224 — the 97th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 33–34, 43–44. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →44 had not appeared for 12 draws. A number waits about 9 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 0.3× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 81% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 3,668 winners, 7% more than the 3.4k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 66,378,256 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 143,815 |
| 5 | 89 | ZAR 2,810 |
| 4 + Bonus | 207 | ZAR 1,510 |
| 4 | 3,668 | ZAR 143 |
| 3 + Bonus | 4,673 | ZAR 97.00 |
| 3 | 65,557 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 47,141 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 121,336 | — |