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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 8,577,911
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 699 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 698 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 17 September 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 22 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 85 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 698 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 3 of 6 numbers (11, 12, 16) with the draw of 6 April 2016 — its closest relative in 698 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 September 2016): 8, 16 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 74 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 11–12. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →12 had not appeared for 20 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 3.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 13% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 7,550 winners, 33% more than the 5.7k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more popular than average — a draw full of birthdays makes more small winners, a draw of high numbers fewer. That is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 8,577,911 |
| 5 + Bonus | 2 | ZAR 157,342 |
| 5 | 97 | ZAR 2,681 |
| 4 + Bonus | 347 | ZAR 1,372 |
| 4 | 4,783 | ZAR 90.00 |
| 3 + Bonus | 7,550 | ZAR 58.00 |
| 3 | 75,716 | ZAR 50.00 |