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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 9,642,354
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 692 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 691 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 March 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 23 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 80 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 691 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, 4, 17, 43) with the draw of 29 December 2021 — its closest relative in 691 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 42% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (20 March 2024): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 70 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2, 2–3, 3–4. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →4 had not appeared for 43 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 4.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 16% 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: 4 — 5,154 winners, 123% more than the 2.3k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 9,642,354 |
| 5 + Bonus | 2 | ZAR 40,864 |
| 5 | 71 | ZAR 2,001 |
| 4 + Bonus | 127 | ZAR 1,399 |
| 4 | 5,154 | ZAR 57.00 |
| 3 + Bonus | 2,596 | ZAR 99.00 |
| 3 | 44,240 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 28,207 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 80,397 | — |