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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 20
  3. 25
  4. 50
  5. 51
  6. 58
  7. 45

Jackpot£6,883,840

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 204 of 1,189 under them

← 2017-09-16All recent draws2017-09-23 →

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 20 25 50 51 58 + 4529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 September 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 49% of every possible ticket.

  • sum78th
  • odd20th
  • low48th
  • widest gap84th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread75th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 21 of each

824times
2019times
2520times
5016times
51

Prize breakdown · 2017-09-20

  • Lines in play≈ 4.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.5Mto 47k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.10

Where the money went

  • Match 53.2%£48.3K
  • Match 421%£310.6K
  • Match 376%£1.1M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.10 by chance£6,883,840
  2. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball

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19times
5824times

Every number was expected about that many times after 203 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 (20, 25, 51) with the draw of 9 April 2016 — its closest relative in 203 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 89% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 September 2017): 50 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

212

The numbers add up to 212 — the 78th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 50–51. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

51 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 74% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
0≈ 0.61 by chance
no winners
  • Match 523≈ 32 by chance£2,098
  • Match 41,765≈ 2.1k by chance£176
  • Match 345,284≈ 48k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 450k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈4.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 450k 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 345,284£25.00
    Match 41,765£176
    Match 523£2,098
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£6,883,840