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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 32,995,804
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 837 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 836 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 16 August 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 20% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 96 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 836 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 (2, 22, 23) with the draw of 24 August 2024 — its closest relative in 836 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 August 2025): 2, 50 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 129 — the 20th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 22–23. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →23 had not appeared for 35 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 ≈3.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + Bonus — 41,025 winners, 14% more than the 36k 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 32,995,804 |
| 5 + Bonus | 2 | ZAR 52,750 |
| 5 | 41 | ZAR 4,475 |
| 4 + Bonus | 132 | ZAR 1,737 |
| 4 | 2,410 | ZAR 159 |
| 3 + Bonus | 3,809 | ZAR 87.00 |
| 3 | 48,186 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 41,025 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 95,605 | — |