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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 14
  3. 20
  4. 27
  5. 28
  6. 53
  7. 45

Jackpot£12,206,872

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 134 of 1,185 under them

← 2017-01-14All recent draws2017-01-21 →

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 feed8 14 20 27 28 53 + 4529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 January 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

46oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 33% of every possible ticket.

  • sum23th
  • odd20th
  • low94th
  • widest gap84th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread54th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 14 of each

816times
1420times
2013times
2712times
28

Prize breakdown · 2017-01-18

  • Lines in play≈ 9.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£14.9Mto 93k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 62 winnerschance said 0.20

Where the money went

  • Match 682%£12.2M
  • Match 42.3%£336.1K
  • Match 315%£2.2M
  • 2 other tiers0.7%£102.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 62≈ 0.20 by chance

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13times
5311times

Every number was expected about that many times after 133 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 4 of 6 numbers (8, 14, 28, 53) with the draw of 9 December 2015 — its closest relative in 133 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 6.0% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 January 2017): 14, 53 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

150

The numbers add up to 150 — the 23th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 15 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 58% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£6,103,436
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 1.2 by chance£49,792
  • Match 564≈ 63 by chance£818
  • Match 44,001≈ 4.2k by chance£84.00
  • Match 388,893≈ 94k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 883k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈9.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 883k 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 388,893£25.00
    Match 44,001£84.00
    Match 564£818
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£49,792
    Match 62£6,103,436