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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 30 December 2000

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 7
  3. 16
  4. 18
  5. 38
  6. 47
  7. 10

Jackpot£6,759,436

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 524 of 2,065 under them

← 2000-12-27All recent draws2001-01-03 →

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 feed1 7 16 18 38 47 + 1029 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 523 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 30 December 2000 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 40% of every possible ticket.

  • sum25th
  • odd48th
  • low77th
  • widest gap81th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread95th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 64 of each

165times
765times
1655times
1861times
3885times
4770times

Every number was expected about that many times after 523 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 (1, 18, 38) with the draw of 14 August 1999 — its closest relative in 523 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 December 2000): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

127

The numbers add up to 127 — the 24th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. No two numbers side by side. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

1 had not appeared for 18 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 38% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2000-12-30

  • Lines in play≈ 56Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£22.1Mto 965k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 58lines took a prize
  • Match 62 winnerschance said 4.0

Where the money went

  • Match 631%£6.8M
  • Match 413%£2.8M
  • Match 341%£9.1M
  • 2 other tiers15%£3.4M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 62≈ 4.0 by chance£3,379,718
  2. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball20≈ 24 by chance£103,991
  3. Match 5864≈ 1.0k by chance£1,504
  4. Match 449,984≈ 54k by chance£57.00
  5. Match 3914,369≈ 983k by chance£10.00
  6. Match 20≈ 7.4M by chance£2.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈56M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 7.4M 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 3914,369£10.00
Match 449,984£57.00
Match 5864£1,504
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball20£103,991
Match 62£3,379,718