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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 64 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 16 May 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 14% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 63 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 (16, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 25 April 2026 — its closest relative in 63 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (9 May 2026): 15 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 119 — the 7th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →19 had not appeared for 24 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 57% 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: Match 4 — 1,369 winners, 13% more than the 1.2k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | ZAR 7,000,000 |
| Match 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 24,992 |
| Match 5 | 21 | ZAR 1,851 |
| Match 4 + Bonus | 73 | ZAR 761 |
| Match 4 | 1,369 | ZAR 101 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 2,012 | ZAR 55.20 |
| Match 3 | 27,800 | ZAR 21.00 |
| Match 2 | 247,110 | ZAR 4.20 |
| Totals | 278,386 | — |