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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 33,505,492
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 341 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 340 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 7 November 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 24% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 340 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 (2, 14, 28, 46) with the draw of 29 August 2018 — its closest relative in 340 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 23% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (4 November 2020): 2, 14 carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 109 — the 8th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →15 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 40% 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: 2 + Bonus — 37,683 winners, 11% more than the 34k 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 | 0 | ZAR 33,505,492 |
| 5 + Bonus | 1 | ZAR 93,848 |
| 5 | 38 | ZAR 4,295 |
| 4 + Bonus | 112 | ZAR 1,821 |
| 4 | 2,162 | ZAR 158 |
| 3 + Bonus | 3,273 | ZAR 91.00 |
| 3 | 45,122 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 37,683 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 88,391 | — |