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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 28 April 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 11
  3. 37
  4. 38
  5. 43
  6. 44
  7. 20

Jackpot£13,477,493

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 267 of 1,189 under them

← 2018-04-25All recent draws2018-05-02 →

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 feed3 11 37 38 43 44 + 2029 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 April 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 39% of every possible ticket.

  • sum46th
  • odd77th
  • low20th
  • widest gap86th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread38th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

324times
1132times
3734times
3831times
43

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-28

  • Lines in play≈ 15Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.3Mto 151k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.33

Where the money went

  • Match 51.9%£83.3K
  • Match 412%£535.2K
  • Match 384%£3.6M
  • 1 other tier1.8%£79.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.33 by chance

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25times
4423times

Every number was expected about that many times after 266 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 4 of 6 numbers (11, 37, 43, 44) with the draw of 5 October 2016 — its closest relative in 266 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 12% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (25 April 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

176

The numbers add up to 176 — the 46th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 37–38, 43–44. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

37 had not appeared for 15 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 81% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£13,477,493
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 2.0 by chance£79,204
  • Match 577≈ 101 by chance£1,082
  • Match 47,042≈ 6.7k by chance£76.00
  • Match 3143,703≈ 152k 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 ≈15M 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 3143,703£25.00
    Match 47,042£76.00
    Match 577£1,082
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£79,204
    Match 60£13,477,493