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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 17 December 1994

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 5
  3. 9
  4. 13
  5. 14
  6. 38
  7. 30

Jackpot£6,806,620

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

Rules6/49 + 1/49 · Nov 1994 – Oct 2015draw 5 of 2,065 under them

← 1994-12-10All recent draws1994-12-24 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed3 5 9 13 14 38 + 3029 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

UK Lotto was a 6/49 + 1/49 · Nov 1994 – Oct 2015 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 4 draws before it — not against today’s pool.

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This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 December 1994 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

37oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 37 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 16% of every possible ticket.

  • sum2th
  • odd77th
  • low94th
  • widest gap93th
  • neighbours70th
  • spread42th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 0 of each

31time
51time
90times
130times
141time
381time

Every number was expected about that many times after 4 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 6 numbers (3, 5, 14) with the draw of 19 November 1994 — its closest relative in 4 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 7.2% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (10 December 1994): 38 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

82

The numbers add up to 82 — the 2th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

3 had not appeared for 4 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 32% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 1994-12-17

  • Lines in play≈ 70Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£24.6Mto 1.2M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 58lines took a prize
  • Match 62 winnerschance said 5.0

Where the money went

  • Match 628%£6.8M
  • Match 412%£2.8M
  • Match 347%£11.5M
  • 2 other tiers14%£3.4M
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 62≈ 5.0 by chance£3,403,310
  2. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball14≈ 30 by chance£149,596
  3. Match 5831≈ 1.3k by chance£1,575
  4. Match 460,325≈ 68k by chance£47.00
  5. Match 31,151,351≈ 1.2M by chance£10.00
  6. Match 20≈ 9.3M by chance£2.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈70M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 9.3M an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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.

Show the published table
MatchWinnersPrize each
Match 20£2.00
Match 31,151,351£10.00
Match 460,325£47.00
Match 5831£1,575
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball14£149,596
Match 62£3,403,310