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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 23,148,660
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 352 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 351 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 December 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 18% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 41 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 351 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 (3, 15, 34) with the draw of 7 November 2020 — its closest relative in 351 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 December 2020): nothing 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: 3–4. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →4 had not appeared for 24 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 1.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 38% 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 — 1,803 winners, 4% more than the 1.7k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 23,148,660 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 126,408 |
| 5 | 25 | ZAR 3,370 |
| 4 + Bonus | 96 | ZAR 1,089 |
| 4 | 1,803 | ZAR 115 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,362 | ZAR 88.00 |
| 3 | 33,281 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 25,517 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 63,085 | — |