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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 12
  3. 35
  4. 46
  5. 48
  6. 57
  7. 14

Jackpot£28,573,124

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

Rules6/59 + 1/59 · since Oct 2015draw 20 of 1,187 under them

← 2015-12-12All recent draws2015-12-19 →

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 feed10 12 35 46 48 57 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 December 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 48% of every possible ticket.

  • sum75th
  • odd20th
  • low20th
  • widest gap76th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread63th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

102times
121time
350times
463times
48

Prize breakdown · 2015-12-16

  • Lines in play≈ 9.7Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£3.0Mto 100k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.22

Where the money went

  • Match 52.6%£77.7K
  • Match 417%£499.5K
  • Match 381%£2.4M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.22 by chance£28,573,124

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0times
573times

Every number was expected about that many times after 19 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 1 of 6 numbers (57) with the draw of 12 December 2015 — its closest relative in 19 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (12 December 2015): 57 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

208

The numbers add up to 208 — the 75th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. No two numbers side by side. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

46 had not appeared for 8 draws. A number waits about 10 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 81% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.3 by chanceno winners
  • Match 541≈ 68 by chance£1,894
  • Match 43,964≈ 4.5k by chance£126
  • Match 395,643≈ 101k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 950k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈9.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 950k 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 395,643£25.00
    Match 43,964£126
    Match 541£1,894
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£28,573,124