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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
ResultLotto
JackpotZAR 16,549,980
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
Rules6/49 + 1/49 · Jan 2010 – Aug 2017draw 459 of 1,577 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:56 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/49 + 1/49 · Jan 2010 – Aug 2017 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 458 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 31 May 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 20% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 56 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 458 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 6 numbers (5, 8, 16, 29) with the draw of 17 September 2011 — its closest relative in 458 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 36% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (28 May 2014): 8, 16, 28 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 101 — the 7th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16, 28–29. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →5 had not appeared for 6 draws. A number waits about 8 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 3.0× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 15% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈8.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 9,021 winners, 14% fewer than the 10k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 16,549,980 |
| 5 + Bonus | 3 | ZAR 152,990 |
| 5 | 148 | ZAR 6,977 |
| 4 + Bonus | 371 | ZAR 1,546 |
| 4 | 8,498 | ZAR 226 |
| 3 + Bonus | 9,021 | ZAR 139 |
| 3 | 139,125 | ZAR 29.00 |