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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 2,887,835
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 694 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 693 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 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 91% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 85 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 693 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 (16, 19, 27, 38) with the draw of 24 December 2014 — its closest relative in 693 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 50% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (27 August 2016): 27 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 144 — the 42th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →38 had not appeared for 11 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 45% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 2,816 winners, 6% fewer than the 3.0k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 2,887,835 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 312,600 |
| 5 | 50 | ZAR 5,166 |
| 4 + Bonus | 116 | ZAR 4,077 |
| 4 | 2,816 | ZAR 152 |
| 3 + Bonus | 3,757 | ZAR 117 |
| 3 | 53,033 | ZAR 50.00 |