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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 26 May 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 9
  2. 14
  3. 19
  4. 29
  5. 39
  6. 40
  7. 3

Jackpot£9,207,610

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 275 of 1,189 under them

← 2018-05-23All recent draws2018-05-30 →

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 feed9 14 19 29 39 40 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 May 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

37oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 37 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 17% of every possible ticket.

  • sum23th
  • odd77th
  • low77th
  • widest gap6th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread11th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each

920times
1434times
1931times
2934times
39

Prize breakdown · 2018-05-26

  • Lines in play≈ 14Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£13.3Mto 148k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 96lines took a prize
  • Match 62 winnerschance said 0.31

Where the money went

  • Match 669%£9.2M
  • Match 43.8%£502.5K
  • Match 326%£3.5M
  • 2 other tiers1.1%£153.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 62≈ 0.31 by chance

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27times
4028times

Every number was expected about that many times after 274 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 (19, 29, 40) with the draw of 7 February 2018 — its closest relative in 274 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 May 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

150

The numbers add up to 150 — the 23th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 39–40. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

29 had not appeared for 24 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 67% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£4,603,805
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball7≈ 1.9 by chance£10,664
  • Match 5163≈ 98 by chance£482
  • Match 48,815≈ 6.5k by chance£57.00
  • Match 3138,621≈ 147k 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 3138,621£25.00
    Match 48,815£57.00
    Match 5163£482
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball7£10,664
    Match 62£4,603,805