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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 24 December 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 19
  3. 29
  4. 46
  5. 54
  6. 58
  7. 12

Jackpot£20,765,992

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 127 of 1,187 under them

← 2016-12-21All recent draws2016-12-28 →

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 feed16 19 29 46 54 58 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 24 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

66oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 82% of every possible ticket.

  • sum85th
  • odd20th
  • low48th
  • widest gap42th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread42th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each

1613times
1913times
2915times
4615times
54

Prize breakdown · 2016-12-24

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.4Mto 146k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.32

Where the money went

  • Match 52.8%£122.0K
  • Match 418%£783.0K
  • Match 380%£3.5M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.32 by chance

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15times
5815times

Every number was expected about that many times after 126 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 (16, 29, 58) with the draw of 29 October 2016 — its closest relative in 126 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 75% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 December 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

222

The numbers add up to 222 — the 85th 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

29 had not appeared for 16 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 →
£20,765,992
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.9 by chanceno winners
  • Match 554≈ 99 by chance£2,259
  • Match 45,593≈ 6.6k by chance£140
  • Match 3140,795≈ 149k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.4M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈14M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.4M 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 3140,795£25.00
    Match 45,593£140
    Match 554£2,259
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£20,765,992