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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 300,000
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 2,620 of 3,030 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 May 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 72 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 98% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 364 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 2,619 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 (7, 12, 28, 32) with the draw of 25 April 2023 — its closest relative in 2,619 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 66% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (17 May 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 →12 had not appeared for 15 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 →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈600k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 — 7,328 winners, 1% fewer than the 7.4k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 0 | ZAR 300,000 |
| 4 | 279 | ZAR 1,406 |
| 3 | 7,328 | ZAR 20.00 |
| 2 | 71,512 | ZAR 5.00 |
| - | 79,119 | — |