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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 2,821,224
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 776 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 775 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 15 January 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 37 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 17% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 89 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 775 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 (12, 21, 35) with the draw of 27 November 2024 — its closest relative in 775 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (11 January 2025): 1 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 118 — the 12th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 24–25. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →35 had not appeared for 13 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 40% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + Bonus — 22,284 winners, 9% fewer than the 25k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 2,821,224 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 26 | ZAR 4,373 |
| 4 + Bonus | 81 | ZAR 1,649 |
| 4 | 1,771 | ZAR 133 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,228 | ZAR 106 |
| 3 | 32,770 | ZAR 25.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 22,284 | ZAR 15.00 |
| - | 59,160 | — |