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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 5,711,552
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 458 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 457 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 22 December 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 51% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 53 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 457 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 (2, 8, 40) with the draw of 28 August 2021 — its closest relative in 457 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (18 December 2021): 8 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 148 — the 37th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 46–47. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →2 had not appeared for 33 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 54% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 2,999 winners, 35% more than the 2.2k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 5,711,552 |
| 5 + Bonus | 2 | ZAR 70,831 |
| 5 | 32 | ZAR 2,951 |
| 4 + Bonus | 70 | ZAR 1,673 |
| 4 | 1,460 | ZAR 160 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,999 | ZAR 78.00 |
| 3 | 31,825 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 23,731 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 60,119 | — |