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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 7,879,857
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 647 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 646 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 October 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 40% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 75 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 646 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 (8, 30, 40, 42) with the draw of 28 December 2022 — its closest relative in 646 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 39% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 October 2023): 8 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 160 — the 51th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9, 30–31. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →42 had not appeared for 22 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 42% 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: 2 + Bonus — 27,936 winners, 14% more than the 25k 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 7,879,857 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 81,561 |
| 5 | 26 | ZAR 5,455 |
| 4 + Bonus | 78 | ZAR 2,273 |
| 4 | 1,602 | ZAR 185 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,393 | ZAR 108 |
| 3 | 32,670 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 27,936 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 64,706 | — |