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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 16,570,423
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 623 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 622 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 29 July 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 55 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 56% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 72 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 622 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 (16, 32, 45) with the draw of 1 April 2023 — its closest relative in 622 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (26 July 2023): 32 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 213 — the 94th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 35–36. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 had not appeared for 11 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 0.3× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 81% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 3,053 winners, 13% more than the 2.7k 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 | 0 | ZAR 16,570,423 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 23 | ZAR 7,356 |
| 4 + Bonus | 78 | ZAR 2,549 |
| 4 | 1,931 | ZAR 182 |
| 3 + Bonus | 3,053 | ZAR 115 |
| 3 | 38,626 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 29,702 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 73,413 | — |