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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 100 of 279 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 16 Sept 2026, 21:50 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 September 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 24% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 99 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 (24, 38, 49) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 January 2026 — its closest relative in 99 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 September 2026): 24 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 215 — the 83th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 24–25. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →38 had not appeared for 32 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 84% 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 2 + Bonus — 18,138 winners, 347% more than the 4.1k 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 8,500,000 |
| Match 5 + Bonus | 0 | ZAR 0.00 |
| Match 5 | 25 | ZAR 42,760 |
| Match 4 + Bonus | 58 | ZAR 4,000 |
| Match 4 | 1,236 | ZAR 200 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 1,717 | ZAR 200 |
| Match 2 + Bonus | 18,138 | ZAR 30.00 |
| Match 3 | 24,315 | ZAR 20.00 |
| Totals | 45,489 | — |