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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 6,500,000
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
Rules6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025draw 41 of 309 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 February 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 31 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 9% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 40 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 2 of 6 numbers (11, 20) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 20 December 2025 — its closest relative in 40 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 February 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 111 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. No two numbers side by side. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →15 had not appeared for 29 draws. A number waits about 10 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 55% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 1,237 winners, 16% more than the 1.1k 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 6,500,000 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 19 | ZAR 2,957 |
| 4 + Bonus | 57 | ZAR 857 |
| 4 | 1,237 | ZAR 98.00 |
| 3 + Bonus | 1,613 | ZAR 60.00 |
| 3 | 24,530 | ZAR 21.00 |
| 2 | 218,111 | ZAR 4.00 |
| - | 245,567 | — |