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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 22,308,590
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 57 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 April 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 28% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 56 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 (38, 57, 58) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 February 2026 — its closest relative in 56 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 47% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 April 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 273 — the 99th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 56–57, 57–58. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →43 had not appeared for 32 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 88% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 25,969 winners, 5% fewer than the 27k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | ZAR 22,308,590 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 21 | ZAR 3,960 |
| 4 + Bonus | 49 | ZAR 1,476 |
| 4 | 1,236 | ZAR 146 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,303 | ZAR 62.00 |
| 3 | 25,969 | ZAR 29.00 |
| 2 | 251,083 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 280,662 | — |