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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 1
plus 1Lotto
JackpotZAR 3,198,461
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 176 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 175 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 April 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 31% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 20 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 175 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 (7, 11, 36) with the draw of 4 August 2018 — its closest relative in 175 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 April 2019): 12 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 115 — the 10th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 11–12. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →22 had not appeared for 38 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 1.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 34% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 3,944 winners, 27% more than the 3.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | ZAR 3,198,461 |
| 5 + Bonus | 7 | ZAR 21,841 |
| 5 | 83 | ZAR 1,228 |
| 4 + Bonus | 151 | ZAR 837 |
| 4 | 3,944 | ZAR 64.00 |
| 3 + Bonus | 4,176 | ZAR 60.00 |
| 3 | 59,474 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 39,288 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 107,124 | — |