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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 43,120,572
The crowdHeld 5% less than 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 225 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 224 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 25 September 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 23 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 224 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 (5, 10, 49) with the draw of 11 September 2019 — its closest relative in 224 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 September 2019): 10 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 73 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2, 5–6. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →2 had not appeared for 16 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 2.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 31% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 4,861 winners, 98% more than the 2.5k 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 | 0 | ZAR 43,120,572 |
| 5 + Bonus | 7 | ZAR 10,072 |
| 5 | 81 | ZAR 1,513 |
| 4 + Bonus | 244 | ZAR 628 |
| 4 | 4,861 | ZAR 52.00 |
| 3 + Bonus | 4,281 | ZAR 52.00 |
| 3 | 44,343 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 35,138 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 88,955 | — |