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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 17 March 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 13
  4. 24
  5. 45
  6. 46
  7. 39

Jackpot£5,060,421

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 255 of 1,189 under them

← 2018-03-14All recent draws2018-03-21 →

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 feed7 8 13 24 45 46 + 3929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 March 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 50% of every possible ticket.

  • sum18th
  • odd48th
  • low77th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread31th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each

724times
830times
1322times
2423times
45

Prize breakdown · 2018-03-17

  • Lines in play≈ 15Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.4Mto 157k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.34

Where the money went

  • Match 51.8%£78K
  • Match 411%£499.4K
  • Match 385%£3.7M
  • 1 other tier1.7%£74.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.34 by chance

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23times
4627times

Every number was expected about that many times after 254 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 (7, 8, 13) with the draw of 20 May 2017 — its closest relative in 254 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 March 2018): 7, 45 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

143

The numbers add up to 143 — the 18th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 7–8, 45–46. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

13 had not appeared for 30 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 69% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£5,060,421
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3≈ 2.0 by chance£24,718
  • Match 5100≈ 106 by chance£780
  • Match 46,748≈ 7.0k by chance£74.00
  • Match 3149,824≈ 159k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.5M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈15M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.5M 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 3149,824£25.00
    Match 46,748£74.00
    Match 5100£780
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3£24,718
    Match 60£5,060,421