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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 31 March 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 20
  4. 26
  5. 35
  6. 36
  7. 39

Jackpot£5,199,304

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 259 of 1,189 under them

← 2018-03-28All recent draws2018-04-04 →

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 feed6 8 20 26 35 36 + 3929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 31 March 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

29oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 29 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum11th
  • odd5th
  • low77th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread10th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each

622times
831times
2029times
2621times
35

Prize breakdown · 2018-03-31

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.1Mto 144k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.31

Where the money went

  • Match 52.0%£80.3K
  • Match 413%£513.6K
  • Match 384%£3.4M
  • 1 other tier1.9%£76.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.31 by chance

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27times
3629times

Every number was expected about that many times after 258 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 (6, 20, 35) with the draw of 4 November 2017 — its closest relative in 258 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (28 March 2018): 6 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

131

The numbers add up to 131 — the 11th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 35–36. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

26 had not appeared for 16 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 65% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£5,199,304
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 1.9 by chance£38,177
  • Match 5104≈ 97 by chance£772
  • Match 46,114≈ 6.4k by chance£84.00
  • Match 3137,455≈ 146k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.4M 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 1.4M 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 3137,455£25.00
    Match 46,114£84.00
    Match 5104£772
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£38,177
    Match 60£5,199,304