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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 8 October 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 11
  2. 17
  3. 20
  4. 32
  5. 40
  6. 42
  7. 27

Jackpot£19,422,626

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 105 of 1,187 under them

← 2016-10-05All recent draws2016-10-12 →

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 feed11 17 20 32 40 42 + 2729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 October 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

51oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 47% of every possible ticket.

  • sum33th
  • odd20th
  • low48th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread11th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 11 of each

1111times
1713times
2011times
326times
40

Prize breakdown · 2016-10-08

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.8Mto 166k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.36

Where the money went

  • Match 52.0%£98.3K
  • Match 413%£630.6K
  • Match 383%£4.0M
  • 1 other tier1.9%£93.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.36 by chance

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12times
429times

Every number was expected about that many times after 104 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 (11, 17, 40) with the draw of 10 August 2016 — its closest relative in 104 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 68% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 October 2016): 11 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

162

The numbers add up to 162 — the 33th 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

32 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 →
£19,422,626
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 2.2 by chance£93,384
  • Match 5101≈ 112 by chance£973
  • Match 47,166≈ 7.4k by chance£88.00
  • Match 3159,098≈ 169k 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 3159,098£25.00
    Match 47,166£88.00
    Match 5101£973
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£93,384
    Match 60£19,422,626