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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 3,247,902
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 148 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 147 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 29 December 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 23% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 147 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 (50, 51) with the draw of 15 December 2018 — its closest relative in 147 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (26 December 2018): 15 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 184 — the 75th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 50–51, 51–52. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →9 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 53% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 2,761 winners, 14% more than the 2.4k 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 | 1 | ZAR 3,247,902 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 102,331 |
| 5 | 69 | ZAR 2,579 |
| 4 + Bonus | 110 | ZAR 2,022 |
| 4 | 2,761 | ZAR 135 |
| 3 + Bonus | 3,339 | ZAR 97.00 |
| 3 | 46,248 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 35,544 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 88,073 | — |