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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 27 February 2002

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 12
  3. 28
  4. 31
  5. 39
  6. 44
  7. 42

Jackpot£3,289,628

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 645 of 2,065 under them

← 2002-02-23All recent draws2002-03-02 →

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 feed6 12 28 31 39 44 + 4229 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 644 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 27 February 2002 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

63oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 77% of every possible ticket.

  • sum62th
  • odd20th
  • low20th
  • widest gap58th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread57th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 79 of each

677times
1286times
2887times
3190times
3969times
4493times

Every number was expected about that many times after 644 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 4 of 6 numbers (6, 12, 31, 44) with the draw of 26 November 1994 — its closest relative in 644 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 47% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 February 2002): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

160

The numbers add up to 160 — the 61th 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

31 had not appeared for 17 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 42% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2002-02-27

  • Lines in play≈ 31Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£11.5Mto 548k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 57lines took a prize
  • Match 64 winnerschance said 2.3

Where the money went

  • Match 629%£3.3M
  • Match 412%£1.4M
  • Match 345%£5.2M
  • 2 other tiers14%£1.6M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 64≈ 2.3 by chance£822,407
  2. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball15≈ 14 by chance£67,479
  3. Match 5645≈ 567 by chance£980
  4. Match 430,401≈ 30k by chance£45.00
  5. Match 3516,903≈ 556k by chance£10.00
  6. Match 20≈ 4.2M by chance£2.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈31M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 4.2M 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 3516,903£10.00
Match 430,401£45.00
Match 5645£980
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball15£67,479
Match 64£822,407