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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 20
  3. 28
  4. 38
  5. 41
  6. 46
  7. 16

Jackpot£18,614,720

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 230 of 1,187 under them

← 2017-12-16All recent draws2017-12-23 →

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 feed10 20 28 38 41 46 + 1629 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 December 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.

  • sum53th
  • odd5th
  • low48th
  • widest gap6th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread22th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each

1024times
2025times
2819times
3827times
41

Prize breakdown · 2017-12-20

  • Lines in play≈ 7.7Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£2.3Mto 78k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.17

Where the money went

  • Match 52.3%£52.7K
  • Match 415%£339.3K
  • Match 383%£1.9M
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.17 by chance£18,614,720

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31times
4624times

Every number was expected about that many times after 229 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 (20, 38) with the draw of 4 October 2017 — its closest relative in 229 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 December 2017): 46 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

183

The numbers add up to 183 — the 52th 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

10 had not appeared for 37 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 76% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.0 by chanceno winners
  • Match 542≈ 53 by chance£1,254
  • Match 43,231≈ 3.5k by chance£105
  • Match 375,224≈ 80k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 748k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈7.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 748k 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 375,224£25.00
    Match 43,231£105
    Match 542£1,254
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£18,614,720