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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 31,653,146
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 807 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 806 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 May 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 25 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 93 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 806 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 (5, 10, 11, 41) with the draw of 8 June 2024 — its closest relative in 806 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 47% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (30 April 2025): nothing carried over. Chance says 54% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 78 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 159. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5, 10–11. 47% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →10 had not appeared for 31 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 2.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 27% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈4.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: 3 + Bonus — 5,902 winners, 43% more than the 4.1k 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 31,653,146 |
| 5 + Bonus | 5 | ZAR 17,242 |
| 5 | 88 | ZAR 1,703 |
| 4 + Bonus | 334 | ZAR 561 |
| 4 | 3,519 | ZAR 89.00 |
| 3 + Bonus | 5,902 | ZAR 46.00 |
| 3 | 59,329 | ZAR 50.00 |
| 2 + Bonus | 47,569 | ZAR 20.00 |
| - | 116,746 | — |