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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 12,616,606
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 499 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 498 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 18 May 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 23 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 57 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 498 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 (4, 9, 23) with the draw of 19 September 2020 — its closest relative in 498 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 May 2022): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 96 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 had not appeared for 21 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 3.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 21% 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 — 2,213 winners, 13% more than the 2.0k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | ZAR 12,616,606 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 36 | ZAR 5,035 |
| 4 + Bonus | 111 | ZAR 1,296 |
| 4 | 2,213 | ZAR 109 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,759 | ZAR 76.00 |
| 3 | 37,326 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 27,250 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 69,696 | — |