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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 23 December 2017

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 20
  2. 32
  3. 36
  4. 44
  5. 47
  6. 56
  7. 41

Jackpot£22,331,857

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 231 of 1,187 under them

← 2017-12-20All recent draws2017-12-27 →

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 feed20 32 36 44 47 56 + 4129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 23 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

27oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 27 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.

  • sum91th
  • odd5th
  • low5th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread22th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each

2026times
3219times
3625times
4418times
47

Prize breakdown · 2017-12-23

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.3Mto 141k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.31

Where the money went

  • Match 52.6%£113.3K
  • Match 417%£730.6K
  • Match 378%£3.4M
  • 1 other tier2.5%£107.7K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.31 by chance

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25times
5624times

Every number was expected about that many times after 230 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, 32) with the draw of 29 November 2017 — its closest relative in 230 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 December 2017): 20 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

235

The numbers add up to 235 — the 91th 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

47 had not appeared for 20 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 88% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£22,331,857
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 1.8 by chance£53,861
  • Match 581≈ 95 by chance£1,399
  • Match 45,577≈ 6.3k by chance£131
  • Match 3134,929≈ 143k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.3M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈14M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.3M 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 3134,929£25.00
    Match 45,577£131
    Match 581£1,399
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£53,861
    Match 60£22,331,857