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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 17 November 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 5
  3. 9
  4. 12
  5. 17
  6. 42
  7. 32

Jackpot£5,254,432

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 325 of 1,189 under them

← 2018-11-14All recent draws2018-11-21 →

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 feed4 5 9 12 17 42 + 3229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 November 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.

  • sum1th
  • odd48th
  • low94th
  • widest gap84th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread28th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 33 of each

434times
531times
925times
1231times
17

Prize breakdown · 2018-11-17

  • Lines in play≈ 22Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£11.4Mto 231k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 96lines took a prize
  • Match 62 winnerschance said 0.49

Where the money went

  • Match 646%£5.3M
  • Match 44.5%£515.4K
  • Match 348%£5.4M
  • 2 other tiers1.4%£155.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 62≈ 0.49 by chance

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30times
4234times

Every number was expected about that many times after 324 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 (12, 17, 42) with the draw of 10 November 2018 — its closest relative in 324 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 November 2018): 4 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

89

The numbers add up to 89 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

5 had not appeared for 3 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 2.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 51% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£2,627,216
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3≈ 3.0 by chance£25,318
  • Match 5199≈ 154 by chance£401
  • Match 412,884≈ 10k by chance£40.00
  • Match 3217,620≈ 231k by chance£25.00
  • Match 20≈ 2.2M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈22M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 2.2M 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 3217,620£25.00
    Match 412,884£40.00
    Match 5199£401
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3£25,318
    Match 62£2,627,216