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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 31 May 2003

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 9
  3. 12
  4. 22
  5. 25
  6. 26
  7. 21

Jackpot£4,333,432

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 776 of 2,065 under them

← 2003-05-28All recent draws2003-06-04 →

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 feed2 9 12 22 25 26 + 2129 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 775 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 31 May 2003 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

27oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 27 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.

  • sum5th
  • odd20th
  • low94th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours70th
  • spread8th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 95 of each

2102times
994times
1295times
2285times
25108times
2691times

Every number was expected about that many times after 775 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 (9, 12, 22, 26) with the draw of 12 April 2000 — its closest relative in 775 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 53% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (28 May 2003): 25 carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

96

The numbers add up to 96 — the 5th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 25–26. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

2 had not appeared for 20 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 3.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 14% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2003-05-31

  • Lines in play≈ 50Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£16.5Mto 876k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 57lines took a prize
  • Match 68 winnerschance said 3.6

Where the money went

  • Match 626%£4.3M
  • Match 411%£1.8M
  • Match 350%£8.2M
  • 2 other tiers13%£2.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 68≈ 3.6 by chance£541,679
  2. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball24≈ 21 by chance£55,556
  3. Match 51,175≈ 902 by chance£709
  4. Match 452,867≈ 48k by chance£34.00
  5. Match 3821,723≈ 883k by chance£10.00
  6. Match 20≈ 6.6M by chance£2.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈50M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 6.6M 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 3821,723£10.00
Match 452,867£34.00
Match 51,175£709
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball24£55,556
Match 68£541,679