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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 1,394,169
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 579 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 578 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 25 July 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 72% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 71 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 578 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 (17, 18, 24, 42) with the draw of 4 August 2012 — its closest relative in 578 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 43% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (22 July 2015): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 151 — the 51th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →15 had not appeared for 32 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 48% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈5.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 5,545 winners, 15% more than the 4.8k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | ZAR 1,394,169 |
| 5 + Bonus | 2 | ZAR 152,785 |
| 5 | 132 | ZAR 5,208 |
| 4 + Bonus | 255 | ZAR 1,497 |
| 4 | 5,545 | ZAR 230 |
| 3 + Bonus | 7,231 | ZAR 116 |
| 3 | 85,646 | ZAR 32.00 |