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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 2,823,805
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 83 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 82 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 16 May 2018 — 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 56% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 82 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, 22, 36) with the draw of 15 November 2017 — its closest relative in 82 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 73% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 May 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 140 — the 29th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →1 had not appeared for 14 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 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 51% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 2,083 winners, 16% fewer than the 2.5k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 2,823,805 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 24 | ZAR 10,154 |
| 4 + Bonus | 67 | ZAR 2,886 |
| 4 | 1,646 | ZAR 197 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,083 | ZAR 135 |
| 3 | 35,588 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 24,024 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 63,432 | — |