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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 14 April 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 40
  3. 42
  4. 46
  5. 47
  6. 48
  7. 38

Jackpot£4,933,456

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 263 of 1,189 under them

← 2018-04-11All recent draws2018-04-18 →

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 40 42 46 47 48 + 3829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 14 April 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

19oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 19 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.

  • sum91th
  • odd5th
  • low5th
  • widest gap94th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread28th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

1029times
4026times
4229times
4628times
47

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-14

  • Lines in play≈ 9.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£2.9Mto 96k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.21

Where the money went

  • Match 52.6%£75.4K
  • Match 417%£482.4K
  • Match 378%£2.3M
  • 1 other tier2.5%£71.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.21 by chance

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28times
4816times

Every number was expected about that many times after 262 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 (10, 42, 48) with the draw of 4 January 2017 — its closest relative in 262 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 94% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 April 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

233

The numbers add up to 233 — the 90th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 46–47, 47–48. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

40 had not appeared for 14 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 87% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£4,933,456
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 1.2 by chance£35,832
  • Match 594≈ 65 by chance£802
  • Match 44,195≈ 4.3k by chance£115
  • Match 391,590≈ 97k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 910k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈9.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 910k 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 391,590£25.00
    Match 44,195£115
    Match 594£802
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£35,832
    Match 60£4,933,456