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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 5 May 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 9
  3. 14
  4. 49
  5. 52
  6. 56
  7. 41

Jackpot£17,250,153

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 269 of 1,189 under them

← 2018-05-02All recent draws2018-05-09 →

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 9 14 49 52 56 + 4129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 5 May 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 49% of every possible ticket.

  • sum52th
  • odd20th
  • low48th
  • widest gap98th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread91th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

235times
919times
1433times
4929times
52

Prize breakdown · 2018-05-05

  • Lines in play≈ 11Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£3.2Mto 109k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.24

Where the money went

  • Match 52.6%£84.8K
  • Match 417%£543.6K
  • Match 381%£2.6M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.24 by chance

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33times
5628times

Every number was expected about that many times after 268 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 (49, 52, 56) with the draw of 12 August 2017 — its closest relative in 268 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (2 May 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

182

The numbers add up to 182 — the 51th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. No two numbers side by side. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

49 had not appeared for 26 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 74% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£17,250,153
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.4 by chanceno winners
  • Match 560≈ 74 by chance£1,414
  • Match 43,997≈ 4.9k by chance£136
  • Match 3104,548≈ 111k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.0M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈11M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.0M 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 3104,548£25.00
    Match 43,997£136
    Match 560£1,414
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£17,250,153