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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 9 January 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 26
  2. 27
  3. 46
  4. 47
  5. 52
  6. 58
  7. 48

Jackpot£66,070,646

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 27 of 1,187 under them

← 2016-01-06All recent draws2016-01-13 →

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 feed26 27 46 47 52 58 + 4829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 9 January 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

35oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 14% of every possible ticket.

  • sum97th
  • odd20th
  • low20th
  • widest gap55th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread13th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 3 of each

262times
273times
465times
473times
52

Prize breakdown · 2016-01-09

  • Lines in play≈ 43Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£79.4Mto 436k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 62 winnerschance said 0.95

Where the money went

  • Match 683%£66.1M
  • Match 42.7%£2.2M
  • Match 313%£10.5M
  • 2 other tiers0.8%£661.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 62≈ 0.95 by chance

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5times
582times

Every number was expected about that many times after 26 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 (26, 46, 52) with the draw of 28 October 2015 — its closest relative in 26 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 25% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (6 January 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

256

The numbers add up to 256 — the 97th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27, 46–47. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

26 had not appeared for 20 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 85% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£33,035,323
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball5≈ 5.7 by chance£64,426
  • Match 5259≈ 295 by chance£1,309
  • Match 417,695≈ 20k by chance£123
  • Match 3418,225≈ 443k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 4.2M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈43M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 4.2M 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 3418,225£25.00
    Match 417,695£123
    Match 5259£1,309
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball5£64,426
    Match 62£33,035,323