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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 4 August 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 17
  3. 23
  4. 25
  5. 34
  6. 51
  7. 52

Jackpot£9,309,088

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 295 of 1,189 under them

← 2018-08-01All recent draws2018-08-08 →

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 feed5 17 23 25 34 51 + 5229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 August 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

56oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 56 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 59% of every possible ticket.

  • sum27th
  • odd94th
  • low77th
  • widest gap42th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread58th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 30 of each

525times
1727times
2325times
2529times
34

Prize breakdown · 2018-08-04

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£3.9Mto 136k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.29

Where the money went

  • Match 52.1%£80.5K
  • Match 413%£515.6K
  • Match 383%£3.3M
  • 1 other tier1.9%£76.5K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.29 by chance

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31times
5127times

Every number was expected about that many times after 294 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 (5, 25, 34, 51) with the draw of 9 August 2017 — its closest relative in 294 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 13% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 August 2018): 17, 34 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

155

The numbers add up to 155 — the 27th 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

51 had not appeared for 5 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 70% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£9,309,088
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 1.8 by chance£76,531
  • Match 569≈ 92 by chance£1,167
  • Match 45,371≈ 6.1k by chance£96.00
  • Match 3130,092≈ 138k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.3M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈13M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.3M 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 3130,092£25.00
    Match 45,371£96.00
    Match 569£1,167
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£76,531
    Match 60£9,309,088