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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.
ZA · ball game
Latest drawThursday, 22 October 2026
JackpotZAR 425,078
Top prizeWon by 4 tickets
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 22 Oct 2026, 21:20 UTC.
5 numbers from 1–36. 3,024 draws held here since 2019-03-10.
Your numbers, read by every tool
Type the numbers you always play. Has the line ever come up? How close has Daily Lotto come? What has each number done, what does the line look like, and has the same set turned up anywhere else in the world?
Every tool, for this game
Each one opens with Daily Lotto already selected. The line under every title is true of this game’s rules right now — not a promise about its next draw.

In 3,024 draws every number is expected about 420 times, and a ball favoured by more than 18% over its share would already have shown — see which ones strayed, and how far chance allows.

A number waits 7 draws on average; 4% of the time it waits 22 or more. It is never “due”.

The 5 numbers add up to about 93, give or take 22. Most tickets sit in that bell — and so do most draws.

46.6% of draws contain two numbers side by side. That is the rules talking, not luck.

630 possible pairs, each expected together 48.0 times so far — and about 6 will look “special” by chance alone.

All 36 numbers as a constellation of who appeared with whom — indistinguishable from a shuffled sky.

55% of draws repeat a number from the draw before. A whole draw repeating: 100.0% likely by now.

Sorted, the numbers sit about 6.2 apart on average — and every “spread” you can name is exactly as likely as every other.

It takes about 29 draws for every one of the 36 numbers to appear at least once. The last few are the slow ones.

376,992 possible tickets. Every one has a face — and a typicality score you can look up.

Seven independent tests of randomness run live against all 3,024 draws. Any of them can fail; watch whether they do.

The lowest number lands near 6, the highest near 31. Position is a property of sorting, not of the balls.

5/36 rescaled onto the same axes as every other game here. One law, many machines.

Six documented cases of a beaten lottery. Not one involved patterns in past draws.

What the world believes about 7, 8, 13 and 17 — and what every machine says back.

At 30 million tickets, an average line keeps about 1% of a jackpot it wins. Unpopular numbers keep more — and still lose money.

A full wheel of 10 numbers here is 252 tickets. A guarantee is real; a profit is not.

Five folk claims about 5/36 games, each answered with the closed form that kills it — never a tip for the next draw.
This game draws more than once. Each draw is its own record, read on its own: mixing them would put one draw’s numbers above another draw’s prize table.

Lock a past-only rule, score it on later draws, and compare every hit with the exact 5-of-36 overlap law.

This is a without-replacement ball game; the Digit Laboratory is for Pick 3 and Pick 4.
Not for this game
The Chernoff Map reads the straight tier of a digit game, which counts tickets on one exact number; a ball game has no such row.
Not for this game
This game draws once a day, so it has no second draw to compare its first with.
Not for this gameThis draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 October 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 47% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 386 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,776 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 4 of 5 numbers (3, 17, 23, 36) with the draw of 15 December 2023 — its closest relative in 2,776 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 111 — the 79th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →17 had not appeared for 13 draws. A number waits about 7 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈837k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 10,855 winners, 5% more than the 10k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 5 | 4 | ZAR 106,270 |
| Match 4 | 352 | ZAR 345 |
| Match 3 | 10,855 | ZAR 16.70 |
| Match 2 | 99,785 | ZAR 4.80 |
| Totals | 110,996 | — |
What the top prize has been, draw by draw. It climbs while nobody wins and drops to the floor when somebody does — the sawtooth every rollover game draws.
The jackpot has gone 0 draws without a winner. The typical wait here is 0.2 draws.
Happenedwhat chance predicts
Completed waits between wins, against the geometric law those waits follow if every draw is an independent chance at the jackpot. The law takes its one parameter from the waits themselves, so this compares shape, not level.
Open any draw to read it by every tool — the same six readings the latest result gets above, each against what chance predicted at the time.
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 22 Oct 2026, 21:20 UTC.
Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 47% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 386 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,776 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.
| Draws waited | Happened | Chance says |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 2,050 | 2,037.1 |
| 1 | 277 | 292.1 |
| 2 | 39 | 41.9 |
| 3 | 8 | 6.0 |
| 4 | 2 | 0.9 |
| 5 | 1 | 0.1 |
| 6 | 1 | 0.0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 8 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 10+ | 0 | 0.0 |
Scored 64 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 84% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 385 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,775 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 5 numbers (13, 26, 35) with the draw of 20 October 2026 — its closest relative in 2,775 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (20 October 2026): 13, 26, 35 carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 92 — the 48th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →2 had not appeared for 4 draws. A number waits about 7 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 78% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 385 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,774 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 4 of 5 numbers (12, 13, 31, 35) with the draw of 6 April 2021 — its closest relative in 2,774 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 October 2026): 31 carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 117 — the 86th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. Side-by-side numbers: 12–13. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →35 had not appeared for 26 draws. A number waits about 7 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 56% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 385 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,773 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 4 of 5 numbers (6, 11, 16, 31) with the draw of 9 July 2026 — its closest relative in 2,773 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (18 October 2026): 9, 16 carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 73 — the 19th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →11 had not appeared for 24 draws. A number waits about 7 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 2.0× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 60 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 75% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 385 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,772 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 4 of 5 numbers (9, 12, 16, 36) with the draw of 12 October 2022 — its closest relative in 2,772 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (17 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 99 — the 60th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →9 had not appeared for 9 draws. A number waits about 7 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 71 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 96% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 385 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,771 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 4 of 5 numbers (2, 10, 21, 28) with the draw of 11 November 2020 — its closest relative in 2,771 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 October 2026): 10 carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 92 — the 48th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →2 had not appeared for 16 draws. A number waits about 7 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 23% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 385 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,770 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 4 of 5 numbers (5, 8, 10, 25) with the draw of 29 July 2023 — its closest relative in 2,770 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 54 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. Side-by-side numbers: 5–6. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →8 had not appeared for 16 draws. A number waits about 7 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 2.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 385 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,769 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 4 of 5 numbers (16, 24, 31, 32) with the draw of 20 March 2026 — its closest relative in 2,769 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 129 — the 95th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. Side-by-side numbers: 31–32. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →26 had not appeared for 17 draws. A number waits about 7 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 73% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 384 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,768 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 4 of 5 numbers (12, 20, 27, 36) with the draw of 17 September 2019 — its closest relative in 2,768 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 102 — the 66th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →36 had not appeared for 11 draws. A number waits about 7 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 43 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 27% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 384 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,767 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 4 of 5 numbers (13, 23, 31, 32) with the draw of 23 May 2024 — its closest relative in 2,767 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 127 — the 94th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. Side-by-side numbers: 31–32. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →13 had not appeared for 9 draws. A number waits about 7 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 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 32% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 384 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,766 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 5 numbers (1, 7, 25) with the draw of 5 October 2026 — its closest relative in 2,766 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (11 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 54 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →3 had not appeared for 18 draws. A number waits about 7 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 2.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 65% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 384 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,765 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 4 of 5 numbers (10, 12, 29, 34) with the draw of 7 October 2026 — its closest relative in 2,765 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (10 October 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 107 — the 73th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. No two numbers side by side. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →22 had not appeared for 8 draws. A number waits about 7 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →