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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 16,235,888
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 354 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 353 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 December 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 32% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 41 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 353 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 (15, 22, 23) with the draw of 13 October 2018 — its closest relative in 353 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 December 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 116 — the 11th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 22–23. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →23 had not appeared for 12 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 1.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 36% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + Bonus — 27,675 winners, 14% fewer than the 32k 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 16,235,888 |
| 5 + Bonus | 3 | ZAR 25,267 |
| 5 | 41 | ZAR 3,215 |
| 4 + Bonus | 87 | ZAR 1,894 |
| 4 | 2,250 | ZAR 123 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,727 | ZAR 88.00 |
| 3 | 43,054 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 27,675 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 75,837 | — |