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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 13
  3. 22
  4. 35
  5. 42
  6. 52
  7. 27

Jackpot£16,574,503

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 126 of 1,187 under them

← 2016-12-17All recent draws2016-12-24 →

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 feed10 13 22 35 42 52 + 2729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

67oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 67 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 85% of every possible ticket.

  • sum44th
  • odd20th
  • low48th
  • widest gap17th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread42th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each

1015times
1312times
2211times
3510times
42

Prize breakdown · 2016-12-21

  • Lines in play≈ 7.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£2.3Mto 78k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.17

Where the money went

  • Match 52.4%£55.0K
  • Match 415%£353.8K
  • Match 380%£1.9M
  • 1 other tier2.2%£52.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.17 by chance

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11times
5214times

Every number was expected about that many times after 125 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 (13, 52) with the draw of 9 November 2016 — its closest relative in 125 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

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

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

174

The numbers add up to 174 — the 44th 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

35 had not appeared for 28 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 82% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£16,574,503
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 1.0 by chance£52,224
  • Match 552≈ 53 by chance£1,057
  • Match 43,187≈ 3.5k by chance£111
  • Match 374,721≈ 79k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 743k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈7.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 743k 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 374,721£25.00
    Match 43,187£111
    Match 552£1,057
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£52,224
    Match 60£16,574,503