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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 16,826,525
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 291 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 290 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 16 May 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 75 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 95% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 33 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 290 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 (8, 27, 49) with the draw of 9 October 2019 — its closest relative in 290 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 May 2020): 8, 10 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 139 — the 28th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 49 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 35% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 1,520 winners, 9% more than the 1.4k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | ZAR 16,826,525 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 22 | ZAR 4,946 |
| 4 + Bonus | 54 | ZAR 1,599 |
| 4 | 1,063 | ZAR 136 |
| 3 + Bonus | 1,520 | ZAR 82.00 |
| 3 | 19,965 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 16,244 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 38,869 | — |