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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 22 December 2018

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 15
  3. 17
  4. 24
  5. 32
  6. 56
  7. 31

Jackpot£15,000,000

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 335 of 1,187 under them

← 2018-12-19All recent draws2018-12-26 →

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 15 17 24 32 56 + 3129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 December 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

43oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 43 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 28% of every possible ticket.

  • sum22th
  • odd20th
  • low77th
  • widest gap80th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread84th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 34 of each

435times
1531times
1731times
2427times
32

Prize breakdown · 2018-12-22

  • Lines in play≈ 16Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£22.8Mto 164k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 62 winnerschance said 0.36

Where the money went

  • Match 666%£15.0M
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball8.8%£2.0M
  • Match 321%£4.7M
  • 2 other tiers4.7%£1.1M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 62≈ 0.36 by chance

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31times
5637times

Every number was expected about that many times after 334 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 (15, 17, 32) with the draw of 23 May 2018 — its closest relative in 334 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (19 December 2018): 24, 56 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

148

The numbers add up to 148 — the 21th 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

4 had not appeared for 10 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 →
£7,500,000
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 2.1 by chance£1,000,000
  • Match 589≈ 111 by chance£1,750
  • Match 46,618≈ 7.3k by chance£140
  • Match 3156,964≈ 166k by chance£30.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.6M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.6M 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 3156,964£30.00
    Match 46,618£140
    Match 589£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£1,000,000
    Match 62£7,500,000