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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
ResultLotto
JackpotZAR 8,500,000
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 66 of 295 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 20 May 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 20 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 65 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 (1, 12, 24) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 November 2025 — its closest relative in 65 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 53% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 May 2026): 58 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 112 — the 5th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 12–13. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →4 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 62% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 1,192 winners, 5% more than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 8,500,000 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 47,081 |
| 5 | 16 | ZAR 4,577 |
| 4 + Bonus | 30 | ZAR 3,487 |
| 4 | 1,192 | ZAR 219 |
| 3 + Bonus | 1,103 | ZAR 189 |
| 3 | 25,577 | ZAR 43.00 |
| 2 | 232,613 | ZAR 6.00 |
| - | 260,532 | — |