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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 16 April 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 5
  3. 14
  4. 42
  5. 51
  6. 55
  7. 54

Jackpot£10,317,199

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 55 of 1,187 under them

← 2016-04-13All recent draws2016-04-20 →

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 5 14 42 51 55 + 5429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 April 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 75% of every possible ticket.

  • sum39th
  • odd48th
  • low48th
  • widest gap91th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread87th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 5 of each

28times
53times
149times
425times
51

Prize breakdown · 2016-04-16

  • Lines in play≈ 12Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£14.1Mto 122k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 61 winnerchance said 0.27

Where the money went

  • Match 673%£10.3M
  • Match 44.5%£629.2K
  • Match 321%£2.9M
  • 2 other tiers1.4%£191.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 61≈ 0.27 by chance

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7times
556times

Every number was expected about that many times after 54 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 (14, 55) with the draw of 2 April 2016 — its closest relative in 54 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 April 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

169

The numbers add up to 169 — the 39th 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

2 had not appeared for 16 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 76% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£10,317,199
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 1.6 by chance£46,588
  • Match 568≈ 83 by chance£1,442
  • Match 44,339≈ 5.5k by chance£145
  • Match 3117,561≈ 125k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.2M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈12M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.2M 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 3117,561£25.00
    Match 44,339£145
    Match 568£1,442
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£46,588
    Match 61£10,317,199