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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 86,938,411
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 530 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 529 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 3 September 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 64% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 61 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 529 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 (7, 45, 50) with the draw of 15 December 2021 — its closest relative in 529 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (31 August 2022): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 205 — the 90th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 49–50. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →49 had not appeared for 11 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 66% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 2 + Bonus — 54,607 winners, 12% more than the 49k 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 86,938,411 |
| 5 + Bonus | 2 | ZAR 77,947 |
| 5 | 60 | ZAR 4,518 |
| 4 + Bonus | 154 | ZAR 2,200 |
| 4 | 3,217 | ZAR 177 |
| 3 + Bonus | 4,839 | ZAR 102 |
| 3 | 64,757 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 54,607 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 127,637 | — |