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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 1,500,000
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 65 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 6 May 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 76 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 96% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 64 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 (22, 49) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 February 2026 — its closest relative in 64 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (2 May 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 192 — the 64th 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 →49 had not appeared for 18 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 68% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 1,930 winners, 206% more than the 630 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 1,500,000 |
| 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| 5 | 31 | ZAR 2,979 |
| 4 + Bonus | 67 | ZAR 1,198 |
| 4 | 1,326 | ZAR 151 |
| 3 + Bonus | 1,930 | ZAR 83.00 |
| 3 | 31,467 | ZAR 26.00 |
| 2 | 318,473 | ZAR 4.00 |
| - | 353,294 | — |