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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 21 April 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 12
  5. 20
  6. 57
  7. 38

Jackpot£8,949,271

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 265 of 1,189 under them

← 2018-04-18All recent draws2018-04-25 →

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 feed2 8 9 12 20 57 + 3829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 April 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

21oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 21 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.

  • sum4th
  • odd20th
  • low94th
  • widest gap99th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread94th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

234times
832times
918times
1224times
20

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-21

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.6Mto 165k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.35

Where the money went

  • Match 51.7%£76.5K
  • Match 411%£493.5K
  • Match 386%£3.9M
  • 1 other tier1.6%£72.7K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.35 by chance

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30times
5725times

Every number was expected about that many times after 264 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 (8, 20) with the draw of 31 March 2018 — its closest relative in 264 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 April 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

108

The numbers add up to 108 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

12 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 2.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 46% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£8,949,271
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 2.1 by chance£72,701
  • Match 5134≈ 110 by chance£571
  • Match 47,960≈ 7.3k by chance£62.00
  • Match 3156,417≈ 166k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.6M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.6M 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 3156,417£25.00
    Match 47,960£62.00
    Match 5134£571
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£72,701
    Match 60£8,949,271