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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 3 December 2003

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 28
  3. 34
  4. 35
  5. 38
  6. 47
  7. 6

Jackpot£3,196,797

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 829 of 2,065 under them

← 2003-11-29All recent draws2003-12-06 →

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 28 34 35 38 47 + 629 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 828 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 3 December 2003 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

28oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum85th
  • odd20th
  • low5th
  • widest gap96th
  • neighbours70th
  • spread91th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 101 of each

2111times
28107times
3494times
35104times
38130times
47113times

Every number was expected about that many times after 828 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 (28, 34, 35, 47) with the draw of 11 November 2000 — its closest relative in 828 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 56% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 November 2003): nothing carried over. Chance says 56% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

184

The numbers add up to 184 — the 84th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 150. Side-by-side numbers: 34–35. 50% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 16 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 65% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →

Prize breakdown · 2003-12-03

  • Lines in play≈ 18Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£5.9Mto 312k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 58lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 1.3

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball17%£983.6K
  • Match 423%£1.3M
  • Match 350%£3.0M
  • 1 other tier10%£614.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 1.3 by chance£3,196,797
  2. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball4≈ 7.7 by chance£245,907
  3. Match 5212≈ 325 by chance£2,899
  4. Match 414,898≈ 17k by chance£90.00
  5. Match 3296,443≈ 319k by chance£10.00
  6. Match 20≈ 2.4M by chance£2.00
  • Winners, log scale
  • Prize each, log scale
  • Where chance put the count

The rings take the ≈18M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 2.4M 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 3296,443£10.00
Match 414,898£90.00
Match 5212£2,899
Match 5 plus Bonus Ball4£245,907
Match 60£3,196,797