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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 2,401,708
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 718 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 717 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 23 November 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 37 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 17% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 88 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 717 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 (1, 38, 39, 40) with the draw of 8 October 2016 — its closest relative in 717 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 51% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 November 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 164 — the 66th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 38–39, 39–40, 40–41. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →1 had not appeared for 9 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 38% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈2.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 4 — 2,386 winners, 18% more than the 2.0k 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 2,401,708 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 259,978 |
| 5 | 49 | ZAR 4,384 |
| 4 + Bonus | 108 | ZAR 3,642 |
| 4 | 2,386 | ZAR 149 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,619 | ZAR 139 |
| 3 | 35,862 | ZAR 50.00 |