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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 14,400,541
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 336 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 335 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 24 October 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 36% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 335 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 (20, 33, 38, 49) with the draw of 4 December 2019 — its closest relative in 335 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 23% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 October 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 201 — the 88th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 37–38. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →37 had not appeared for 23 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 73% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + Bonus — 27,586 winners, 5% more than the 26k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 2 | ZAR 7,200,270 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 157,367 |
| 5 | 28 | ZAR 3,746 |
| 4 + Bonus | 115 | ZAR 1,131 |
| 4 | 1,894 | ZAR 137 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,503 | ZAR 104 |
| 3 | 34,997 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 27,586 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 67,126 | — |