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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.
Daily Lotto · draw
ResultDaily Lotto
JackpotZAR 413,230
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 2,508 of 3,029 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 January 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 348 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,507 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 (1, 3, 4, 27) with the draw of 24 May 2021 — its closest relative in 2,507 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 65% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 January 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 55% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 44 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 93. Side-by-side numbers: 3–4. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →27 had not appeared for 14 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 2.5× 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 →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈794k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 11,387 winners, 16% more than the 9.8k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | ZAR 413,230 |
| 4 | 341 | ZAR 279 |
| 3 | 11,387 | ZAR 16.00 |
| 2 | 94,699 | ZAR 4.00 |
| - | 106,428 | — |