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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 14 May 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 9
  2. 12
  3. 23
  4. 24
  5. 32
  6. 51
  7. 16

Jackpot£3,873,490

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 63 of 1,187 under them

← 2016-05-11All recent draws2016-05-18 →

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 feed9 12 23 24 32 51 + 1629 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 14 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

69oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 88% of every possible ticket.

  • sum24th
  • odd48th
  • low77th
  • widest gap55th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread42th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 6 of each

94times
129times
235times
243times
32

Prize breakdown · 2016-05-14

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.6Mto 160k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.35

Where the money went

  • Match 52.0%£93.1K
  • Match 413%£597.6K
  • Match 383%£3.8M
  • 1 other tier1.9%£88.5K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.35 by chance

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3times
518times

Every number was expected about that many times after 62 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 (12, 24) with the draw of 27 April 2016 — its closest relative in 62 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 May 2016): 23 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

151

The numbers add up to 151 — the 23th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 23–24. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

32 had not appeared for 27 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 66% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£3,873,490
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3≈ 2.1 by chance£29,485
  • Match 575≈ 108 by chance£1,241
  • Match 46,426≈ 7.2k by chance£93.00
  • Match 3153,064≈ 162k 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 3153,064£25.00
    Match 46,426£93.00
    Match 575£1,241
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3£29,485
    Match 60£3,873,490