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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 26 December 2015

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 21
  3. 31
  4. 38
  5. 44
  6. 58
  7. 20

Jackpot£39,529,852

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 23 of 1,187 under them

← 2015-12-23All recent draws2015-12-30 →

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 feed17 21 31 38 44 58 + 2029 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 December 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

61oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 71% of every possible ticket.

  • sum76th
  • odd48th
  • low20th
  • widest gap23th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread38th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 2 of each

171time
211time
311time
381time
44

Prize breakdown · 2015-12-26

  • Lines in play≈ 17Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£5.1Mto 176k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.38

Where the money went

  • Match 52.4%£120.2K
  • Match 415%£769.4K
  • Match 383%£4.2M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.38 by chance

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0times
581time

Every number was expected about that many times after 22 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 2 of 6 numbers (31, 58) with the draw of 24 October 2015 — its closest relative in 22 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 92% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 December 2015): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

209

The numbers add up to 209 — the 76th 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

21 had not appeared for 19 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 79% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£39,529,852
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 2.3 by chanceno winners
  • Match 589≈ 119 by chance£1,351
  • Match 47,124≈ 7.9k by chance£108
  • Match 3168,384≈ 178k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.7M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈17M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.7M 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 3168,384£25.00
    Match 47,124£108
    Match 589£1,351
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£39,529,852