Check your past Lotto and LottoPlus tickets against all the past draws

I have recently started purchasing Lotto tickets but didn't keep up with the draw results each week. Then later, I decided to check if I had won anything. To my amazement, the Lotto web site didn't allow me to enter my set of numbers and auto-check if I was a winner on any of the previous draws! [updated on 21Nov2008]

So, I decided to write my own "calculators".
Download it from here:
Lotto Calculator: Zipped 300KB: LottoSouthAfricaCalculator.zip {updated on 19May2009}
LottoPLUS Calculator: Zipped 400KB: LottoPLUSSouthAfricaCalculator.zip {updated on 19May2009}

It allows you to check your numbers in 2 ways:

1) If you are a person that purchases a constant (favorite) set of numbers each week, then use the "Lookup1_TicketAgainstALLresults" worksheet.
Note: this worksheet searches through all draws

2) If you are a person that purchases lots of different numbers in a week, then use the "Lookup_20_TicketsAgainstONEdraw" worksheet. Note: this worksheet searches through one draw's results

It now shows the actual prize money paid out per win.


Note: the "Lookup1_TicketAgainstALLresults" worksheet uses the list of results in the "lotto_export_to_excel" worksheet. To update this list, download the spreadsheet from http://www.nationallottery.co.za/downloads/downloads.asp and then cut and paste the list over the existing numbers.

Good luck! I think it's a sign of the times that we're turning to the Lotto in an attempt to beat the rising inflation and cost of living......

Update on 30Apr 2012: I found a site that does an online search (on a per draw basis) and checks your numbers and winnings: http://www.lottoshop.co.za

Yebo Millionaires: enter for free and you could win R1,000,000

Did you know that you if you are a Vodacom subscriber, then you get 2 free SMSs per week to enter the Yebo Millionaires competition?
Vodacom customers can send their nine lucky letters of the alphabet to 32082. Letters can be repeated.
A customer who has a 9 letter match will win R1 million, those that have an 8 letter match will win R200 000, for a 7 letter match customers will receive a R29 recharge voucher and for a 6 letter match customers will receive a R12 recharge voucher.

Once customers have SMS'ed in their nine letters, they will receive an SMS with an easy multiple choice question that must be answered correctly in order to qualify to play the game. Once the question has been correctly answered, Vodacom customers are now in the game and won't have to answer it again. The entrant will receive an SMS confirming that the entry has been accepted and entered into the draw and will include a reference number for the entry.

All Vodacom customers receive two free SMS's per week to enter the Yebo Millionaires game show. These SMS's will be loaded every Tuesday morning. Prepaid and Top Up customers will receive an additional free SMS for every recharge performed during the week that will be loaded at the time of recharge. Free game show SMS's can only be used to play Yebo Millionaires and SMS's not used during the week will unfortunately not be carried over to the next week. Customers can enter as many times as they like. Once the free game show SMS's have been used, a premium rate of R1.00 (VAT included) per SMS will be charged.

(Prepaid customers must have recharged at least once in that week in order to play the game)

Entries close at 12:00 every Tuesday, the day of the draw. A random selection mechanism will be used to choose the nine (9) winning letters and the weekly results will be audited by Vodacom's independent auditors. The winning letters will be revealed on a televised game show that takes place on SABC 1 on Tuesdays just before 18:30.

See here for more details: http://www.vodacom.co.za/yebo_millionaires/overview.jsp

So, all you Lotto players - try your hand at this method of winning some $s for free!

See here for the winning numbers every week:  http://www.vodacom.co.za/personal/main/rewards/winningletters