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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 8,000,000
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 43 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.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 25 February 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 24% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 42 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 (29, 35) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 25 October 2025 — its closest relative in 42 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 February 2026): 26 carried over. Chance says 50% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 25 repeated (2% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 138 — the 16th 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 →35 had not appeared for 22 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 66% 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: 4 — 1,303 winners, 17% 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 8,000,000 |
| 5 + Bonus | 2 | ZAR 12,196 |
| 5 | 25 | ZAR 1,517 |
| 4 + Bonus | 55 | ZAR 985 |
| 4 | 1,303 | ZAR 104 |
| 3 + Bonus | 1,714 | ZAR 63.00 |
| 3 | 24,079 | ZAR 23.00 |
| 2 | 226,627 | ZAR 4.00 |
| - | 253,805 | — |