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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
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 93 of 311 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 12 August 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 39% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 92 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 (13, 16, 42) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 March 2026 — its closest relative in 92 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 65% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (8 August 2026): 13 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 162 — the 35th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 had not appeared for 14 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 77% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 + Bonus — 15,858 winners, 388% more than the 3.3k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Match 6 | 0 | ZAR 1,000,000 |
| Match 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| Match 5 | 18 | ZAR 32,016 |
| Match 4 + Bonus | 45 | ZAR 2,000 |
| Match 4 | 983 | ZAR 100 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 1,474 | ZAR 100 |
| Match 2 + Bonus | 15,858 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 3 | 19,456 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Totals | 37,834 | — |