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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 30 July 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 26
  3. 28
  4. 41
  5. 51
  6. 57
  7. 48

Jackpot£5,771,863

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 85 of 1,185 under them

← 2016-07-27All recent draws2016-08-03 →

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 feed14 26 28 41 51 57 + 4829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 30 July 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.

  • sum82th
  • odd48th
  • low48th
  • widest gap17th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread46th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

1415times
269times
287times
4113times
51

Prize breakdown · 2016-07-30

  • Lines in play≈ 9.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£3.1Mto 97k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.21

Where the money went

  • Match 52.9%£89.3K
  • Match 419%£573.4K
  • Match 376%£2.3M
  • 1 other tier2.8%£84.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.21 by chance

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9times
5715times

Every number was expected about that many times after 84 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, 26) with the draw of 23 April 2016 — its closest relative in 84 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 July 2016): 26 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

217

The numbers add up to 217 — the 82th 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

51 had not appeared for 22 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 79% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£5,771,863
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 1.3 by chance£84,860
  • Match 542≈ 66 by chance£2,126
  • Match 43,606≈ 4.4k by chance£159
  • Match 393,171≈ 99k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 926k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈9.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 926k 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 393,171£25.00
    Match 43,606£159
    Match 542£2,126
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£84,860
    Match 60£5,771,863