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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 21 May 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 7
  3. 19
  4. 28
  5. 30
  6. 52
  7. 46

Jackpot£3,837,901

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 65 of 1,189 under them

← 2016-05-18All recent draws2016-05-25 →

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 feed6 7 19 28 30 52 + 4629 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

46oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 34% of every possible ticket.

  • sum17th
  • odd20th
  • low94th
  • widest gap72th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread58th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each

61time
75times
194times
285times
30

Prize breakdown · 2016-05-21

  • Lines in play≈ 18Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£5.3Mto 190k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.41

Where the money went

  • Match 51.7%£92.2K
  • Match 411%£589.5K
  • Match 385%£4.5M
  • 1 other tier1.7%£87.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.41 by chance

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4times
528times

Every number was expected about that many times after 64 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 (19, 28) with the draw of 23 December 2015 — its closest relative in 64 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 May 2016): 28 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

142

The numbers add up to 142 — the 17th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 6–7. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

6 had not appeared for 32 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 2.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 54% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£3,837,901
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 2.5 by chance£87,644
  • Match 5134≈ 128 by chance£688
  • Match 48,422≈ 8.5k by chance£70.00
  • Match 3181,024≈ 192k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.8M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈18M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.8M 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 3181,024£25.00
    Match 48,422£70.00
    Match 5134£688
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£87,644
    Match 60£3,837,901