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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 20 April 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 7
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 12
  6. 31
  7. 28

Jackpot£2,187,078

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 56 of 1,187 under them

← 2016-04-16All recent draws2016-04-23 →

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 feed1 7 9 10 12 31 + 2829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 April 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

36oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 36 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 16% of every possible ticket.

  • sum0th
  • odd77th
  • low94th
  • widest gap55th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread10th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

13times
74times
93times
105times
12

Prize breakdown · 2016-04-20

  • Lines in play≈ 17Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£6.8Mto 181k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 95lines took a prize
  • Match 63 winnerschance said 0.38

Where the money went

  • Match 632%£2.2M
  • Match 44.9%£336.4K
  • Match 361%£4.2M
  • 2 other tiers1.5%£102.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 63≈ 0.38 by chance

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7times
319times

Every number was expected about that many times after 55 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 (10, 12) with the draw of 6 February 2016 — its closest relative in 55 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 April 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

70

The numbers add up to 70 — the 0th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 9–10. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

9 had not appeared for 25 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 6.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 24% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£729,026
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball7≈ 2.3 by chance£7,135
  • Match 5336≈ 118 by chance£156
  • Match 412,460≈ 7.8k by chance£27.00
  • Match 3167,741≈ 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 3167,741£25.00
    Match 412,460£27.00
    Match 5336£156
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball7£7,135
    Match 63£729,026