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Daily Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

ResultDaily Lotto

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 20
  3. 22
  4. 26
  5. 31

JackpotZAR 435,000

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

Rules5/36 · since Mar 2019draw 172 of 3,028 under them

← 2019-08-27All recent draws2019-08-29 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed14 20 22 26 3129 Aug 2026, 09:36 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 August 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

27oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 27 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum82th
  • odd10th
  • low10th
  • widest gap6th
  • neighbours27th
  • spread12th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

1422times
2022times
2215times
2626times
31

Prize breakdown · 2019-08-28

  • Lines in play≈ 772kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid outZAR 1.2Mto 203k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 4lines took a prize
  • 50 winnerschance said 2.0

Where the money went

  • 445%ZAR 541.1K
  • 316%ZAR 195K
  • 238%ZAR 460.5K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. 50≈ 2.0 by chanceZAR 435,000
  2. 4

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19times

Every number was expected about that many times after 171 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (14, 20, 26) with the draw of 11 August 2019 — its closest relative in 171 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 89% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 August 2019): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

113

The numbers add up to 113 — the 81th 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 →

The longest wait in this draw

14 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.5× 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 →
296≈ 318 by chance
ZAR 1,828
  • 39,284≈ 9.5k by chanceZAR 21.00
  • 292,097≈ 92k by chanceZAR 5.00
  • -101,677—
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈772k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 9,284 winners, 3% fewer than the 9.5k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    50ZAR 435,000
    4296ZAR 1,828
    39,284ZAR 21.00
    292,097ZAR 5.00
    -101,677—