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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
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 63 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 9 May 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 88% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 62 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 (39, 45) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 February 2026 — its closest relative in 62 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (6 May 2026): 55 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 185 — the 57th 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 →39 had not appeared for 23 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 74% 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: Match 4 — 965 winners, 13% fewer than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | ZAR 5,500,000 |
| Match 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| Match 5 | 17 | ZAR 3,876 |
| Match 4 + Bonus | 51 | ZAR 1,124 |
| Match 4 | 965 | ZAR 148 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 1,272 | ZAR 90.10 |
| Match 3 | 22,714 | ZAR 26.50 |
| Match 2 | 226,709 | ZAR 4.70 |
| Totals | 251,728 | — |