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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 10,005,593
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 339 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 338 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 31 October 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 60% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 338 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 (24, 26, 27, 38) with the draw of 31 October 2018 — its closest relative in 338 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 23% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (28 October 2020): 51 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 186 — the 77th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →20 had not appeared for 15 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 55% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 1,882 winners, 6% fewer than the 2.0k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 10,005,593 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 29 | ZAR 5,829 |
| 4 + Bonus | 71 | ZAR 2,797 |
| 4 | 1,882 | ZAR 186 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,620 | ZAR 134 |
| 3 | 38,212 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 29,610 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 72,424 | — |