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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 15 May 2002

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 6
  3. 10
  4. 19
  5. 40
  6. 49
  7. 9

Jackpot£3,310,528

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 667 of 2,065 under them

← 2002-05-11All recent draws2002-05-18 →

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 feed4 6 10 19 40 49 + 929 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 666 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 15 May 2002 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

39oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 21% of every possible ticket.

  • sum26th
  • odd20th
  • low77th
  • widest gap85th
  • neighbours25th
  • spread91th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 82 of each

474times
680times
1082times
1976times
4092times
4976times

Every number was expected about that many times after 666 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 (4, 6, 19) with the draw of 5 December 2001 — its closest relative in 666 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 May 2002): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

128

The numbers add up to 128 — the 25th 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

6 had not appeared for 14 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 36% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2002-05-15

  • Lines in play≈ 27Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£10.8Mto 475k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 58lines took a prize
  • Match 62 winnerschance said 2.0

Where the money went

  • Match 631%£3.3M
  • Match 413%£1.4M
  • Match 341%£4.5M
  • 2 other tiers15%£1.7M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 62≈ 2.0 by chance£1,655,264
  2. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball15≈ 12 by chance£67,908
  3. Match 5475≈ 493 by chance£1,340
  4. Match 425,609≈ 27k by chance£54.00
  5. Match 3449,326≈ 483k by chance£10.00
  6. Match 20≈ 3.6M by chance£2.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈27M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 3.6M 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 3449,326£10.00
Match 425,609£54.00
Match 5475£1,340
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball15£67,908
Match 62£1,655,264