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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 2 April 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 14
  3. 20
  4. 33
  5. 47
  6. 55
  7. 15

Jackpot£33,282,708

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 51 of 1,187 under them

← 2016-03-30All recent draws2016-04-06 →

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 feed7 14 20 33 47 55 + 1529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 2 April 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

67oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 67 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 85% of every possible ticket.

  • sum46th
  • odd77th
  • low48th
  • widest gap23th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread67th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each

73times
148times
202times
331time
47

Prize breakdown · 2016-04-02

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.8Mto 163k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.35

Where the money went

  • Match 52.2%£105.9K
  • Match 414%£679.4K
  • Match 381%£3.9M
  • 1 other tier2.1%£100.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.35 by chance

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5times
555times

Every number was expected about that many times after 50 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 (7, 14) with the draw of 23 March 2016 — its closest relative in 50 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 March 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

176

The numbers add up to 176 — the 46th 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

20 had not appeared for 36 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 74% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£33,282,708
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 2.1 by chance£50,322
  • Match 592≈ 110 by chance£1,151
  • Match 46,933≈ 7.3k by chance£98.00
  • Match 3155,539≈ 165k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.5M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.5M 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 3155,539£25.00
    Match 46,933£98.00
    Match 592£1,151
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£50,322
    Match 60£33,282,708