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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 53,925,969
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 206 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 205 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 20 July 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 57% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 205 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 (29, 32, 51) with the draw of 3 April 2019 — its closest relative in 205 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 96% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (17 July 2019): 32 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 172 — the 64th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →24 had not appeared for 17 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 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 51% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 2,807 winners, 16% fewer than the 3.3k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | ZAR 53,925,969 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 123,694 |
| 5 | 32 | ZAR 6,722 |
| 4 + Bonus | 77 | ZAR 3,492 |
| 4 | 2,337 | ZAR 193 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,807 | ZAR 139 |
| 3 | 47,913 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 31,191 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 84,358 | — |