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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 2,473,152
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 276 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 275 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 March 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 29% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 32 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 275 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 4 of 6 numbers (12, 16, 20, 21) with the draw of 7 November 2018 — its closest relative in 275 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 19% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 March 2020): 12 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 108 — the 7th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →36 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 36% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 1,960 winners, 13% more than the 1.7k 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 2,473,152 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 108,482 |
| 5 | 34 | ZAR 2,127 |
| 4 + Bonus | 78 | ZAR 1,150 |
| 4 | 1,960 | ZAR 91.00 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,373 | ZAR 75.00 |
| 3 | 33,186 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 24,119 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 61,751 | — |