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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 20 August 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 18
  3. 26
  4. 35
  5. 41
  6. 52
  7. 17

Jackpot£5,898,564

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 91 of 1,185 under them

← 2016-08-17All recent draws2016-08-24 →

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 feed8 18 26 35 41 52 + 1729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 August 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.

  • sum50th
  • odd20th
  • low48th
  • widest gap9th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread50th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 9 of each

88times
187times
2610times
358times
41

Prize breakdown · 2016-08-20

  • Lines in play≈ 12Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£3.6Mto 123k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.27

Where the money went

  • Match 52.5%£89.7K
  • Match 416%£577.1K
  • Match 382%£3.0M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.27 by chance£5,898,564

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15times
5210times

Every number was expected about that many times after 90 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 3 of 6 numbers (26, 41, 52) with the draw of 28 October 2015 — its closest relative in 90 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 63% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 August 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

180

The numbers add up to 180 — the 50th 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

8 had not appeared for 24 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 →
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.6 by chanceno winners
  • Match 599≈ 83 by chance£906
  • Match 44,975≈ 5.5k by chance£116
  • Match 3118,274≈ 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 3118,274£25.00
    Match 44,975£116
    Match 599£906
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£5,898,564