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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
JackpotZAR 7,393,788
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 114 of 311 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 24 Oct 2026, 23:20 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 24 October 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 21 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 113 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, 3, 24) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 September 2026 — its closest relative in 113 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 73% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 October 2026): nothing 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 65 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 177. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2, 2–3, 23–24. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →12 had not appeared for 15 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 4.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 29% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 + Bonus — 18,819 winners, 234% more than the 5.6k 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 | 2 | ZAR 3,696,894 |
| Match 5 + Bonus | 2 | ZAR 115,440 |
| Match 5 | 71 | ZAR 5,691 |
| Match 4 + Bonus | 69 | ZAR 2,000 |
| Match 4 | 2,025 | ZAR 100 |
| Match 3 + Bonus | 1,887 | ZAR 100 |
| Match 2 + Bonus | 18,819 | ZAR 15.00 |
| Match 3 | 33,762 | ZAR 10.00 |
| Totals | 56,637 | — |