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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 2
plus 2Lotto
JackpotZAR 3,168,687
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 167 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 166 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 9 March 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 61% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 19 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 166 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 (14, 24, 50) with the draw of 13 January 2018 — its closest relative in 166 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 93% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (6 March 2019): 11, 15 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 165 — the 56th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15, 50–51. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →51 had not appeared for 11 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 52% 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: 2 + Bonus — 30,822 winners, 14% more than the 27k 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 3,168,687 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 34 | ZAR 4,935 |
| 4 + Bonus | 80 | ZAR 2,464 |
| 4 | 1,641 | ZAR 212 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,574 | ZAR 135 |
| 3 | 35,993 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 30,822 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 71,144 | — |