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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 6,832,641
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 768 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 767 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 December 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 30 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 9% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 89 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 767 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 (3, 5, 8, 22) with the draw of 18 November 2020 — its closest relative in 767 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 45% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 December 2024): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 59 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →8 had not appeared for 26 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 5.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 13% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 3,743 winners, 42% more than the 2.6k 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 6,832,641 |
| 5 + Bonus | 3 | ZAR 39,309 |
| 5 | 127 | ZAR 619 |
| 4 + Bonus | 141 | ZAR 691 |
| 4 | 3,743 | ZAR 52.00 |
| 3 + Bonus | 3,185 | ZAR 61.00 |
| 3 | 50,334 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 28,495 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 86,028 | — |