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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 17 May 2017

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 19
  3. 20
  4. 24
  5. 30
  6. 38
  7. 41

Jackpot£20,114,637

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 168 of 1,189 under them

← 2017-05-13All recent draws2017-05-20 →

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 feed3 19 20 24 30 38 + 4129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 May 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

40oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 21% of every possible ticket.

  • sum13th
  • odd20th
  • low94th
  • widest gap36th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread20th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 17 of each

315times
1919times
2015times
2416times
30

Prize breakdown · 2017-05-17

  • Lines in play≈ 11Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£3.2Mto 116k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.25

Where the money went

  • Match 51.8%£56.7K
  • Match 411%£361.2K
  • Match 385%£2.8M
  • 1 other tier1.7%£53.9K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.25 by chance

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15times
3822times

Every number was expected about that many times after 167 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 (3, 20, 24, 38) with the draw of 6 July 2016 — its closest relative in 167 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 7.5% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 May 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

134

The numbers add up to 134 — the 13th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 had not appeared for 32 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 1.9× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 56% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£20,114,637
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 1.5 by chance£26,954
  • Match 587≈ 78 by chance£652
  • Match 45,473≈ 5.2k by chance£66.00
  • Match 3110,403≈ 117k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.1M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈11M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.1M 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 3110,403£25.00
    Match 45,473£66.00
    Match 587£652
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£26,954
    Match 60£20,114,637