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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 28 December 2016

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 40
  3. 47
  4. 48
  5. 52
  6. 54
  7. 33

Jackpot£22,170,849

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 128 of 1,185 under them

← 2016-12-24All recent draws2016-12-31 →

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 feed5 40 47 48 52 54 + 3329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

29oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 29 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum95th
  • odd20th
  • low5th
  • widest gap98th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread71th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 13 of each

510times
4016times
4713times
486times
52

Prize breakdown · 2016-12-28

  • Lines in play≈ 5.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.8Mto 56k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.12

Where the money went

  • Match 53.2%£56.5K
  • Match 421%£364.5K
  • Match 376%£1.3M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.12 by chance£22,170,849

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15times
5416times

Every number was expected about that many times after 127 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 (40, 54) with the draw of 17 December 2016 — its closest relative in 127 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 December 2016): 54 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

246

The numbers add up to 246 — the 95th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 47–48. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

47 had not appeared for 12 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 87% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.73 by chanceno winners
  • Match 520≈ 38 by chance£2,825
  • Match 42,144≈ 2.5k by chance£170
  • Match 353,817≈ 57k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 535k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈5.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 535k 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 353,817£25.00
    Match 42,144£170
    Match 520£2,825
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£22,170,849