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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 1 December 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 12
  5. 31
  6. 49
  7. 57

Jackpot£4,090,254

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 329 of 1,187 under them

← 2018-11-28All recent draws2018-12-05 →

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 8 9 12 31 49 + 5729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 1 December 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

57oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 61% of every possible ticket.

  • sum5th
  • odd77th
  • low77th
  • widest gap55th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread50th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 33 of each

532times
840times
926times
1232times
31

Prize breakdown · 2018-12-01

  • Lines in play≈ 20Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£7.7Mto 206k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 96lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.44

Where the money went

  • Match 54.3%£330.8K
  • Match 420%£1.6M
  • Match 375%£5.8M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.44 by chance£4,090,254

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34times
4933times

Every number was expected about that many times after 328 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 (5, 9, 12) with the draw of 17 November 2018 — its closest relative in 328 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (28 November 2018): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

114

The numbers add up to 114 — the 5th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

8 had not appeared for 19 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 2.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 48% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 2.6 by chance£1,000,000
  • Match 5189≈ 137 by chance£1,750
  • Match 411,196≈ 9.1k by chance£140
  • Match 3194,358≈ 206k by chance£30.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.9M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈20M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.9M 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 3194,358£30.00
    Match 411,196£140
    Match 5189£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£1,000,000
    Match 60£4,090,254