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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 3,000,000
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
Rules6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025draw 10 of 2,540 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 9 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 2 September 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 18% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 9 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 2 of 6 numbers (1, 25) with the draw of 26 August 2017 — its closest relative in 9 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 73% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (30 August 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 84 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 3–4. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →1 had not appeared for 2 draws. A number waits about 9 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 3.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 18% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 3,389 winners, 28% fewer than the 4.7k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 3,000,000 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 113,943 |
| 5 | 63 | ZAR 3,145 |
| 4 + Bonus | 119 | ZAR 2,081 |
| 4 | 3,582 | ZAR 116 |
| 3 + Bonus | 3,389 | ZAR 106 |
| 3 | 67,007 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 37,593 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 111,754 | — |