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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 3 September 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 6
  3. 17
  4. 28
  5. 38
  6. 55
  7. 37

Jackpot£17,766,697

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 95 of 1,189 under them

← 2016-08-31All recent draws2016-09-07 →

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 feed2 6 17 28 38 55 + 3729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 September 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

49oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 41% of every possible ticket.

  • sum20th
  • odd20th
  • low77th
  • widest gap42th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread87th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 10 of each

213times
63times
1711times
288times
38

Prize breakdown · 2016-09-03

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.9Mto 169k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.37

Where the money went

  • Match 52.0%£98.5K
  • Match 413%£634.6K
  • Match 383%£4.0M
  • 1 other tier1.9%£93.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.37 by chance

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13times
5512times

Every number was expected about that many times after 94 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 (17, 38, 55) with the draw of 3 August 2016 — its closest relative in 94 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 64% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (31 August 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

146

The numbers add up to 146 — the 20th 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

6 had not appeared for 29 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 68% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£17,766,697
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 2.2 by chance£46,798
  • Match 588≈ 114 by chance£1,119
  • Match 46,898≈ 7.6k by chance£92.00
  • Match 3161,556≈ 171k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.6M 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 1.6M 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 3161,556£25.00
    Match 46,898£92.00
    Match 588£1,119
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£46,798
    Match 60£17,766,697