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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 9 May 2020

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 18
  3. 21
  4. 26
  5. 42
  6. 50
  7. 59

Jackpot£7,101,234

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 479 of 1,189 under them

← 2020-05-06All recent draws2020-05-13 →

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 feed7 18 21 26 42 50 + 5929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 9 May 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

63oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 76% of every possible ticket.

  • sum35th
  • odd20th
  • low77th
  • widest gap36th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread46th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 49 of each

747times
1845times
2137times
2649times
42

Prize breakdown · 2020-05-09

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.8Mto 135k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.29

Where the money went

  • Match 53.3%£157.5K
  • Match 416%£794.4K
  • Match 380%£3.9M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.29 by chance£7,101,234

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58times
5038times

Every number was expected about that many times after 478 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 (7, 18, 21) with the draw of 19 February 2020 — its closest relative in 478 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (6 May 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

164

The numbers add up to 164 — the 34th 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

42 had not appeared for 16 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 66% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.8 by chanceno winners
  • Match 590≈ 91 by chance£1,750
  • Match 45,674≈ 6.0k by chance£140
  • Match 3129,222≈ 137k by chance£30.00
  • 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 3129,222£30.00
    Match 45,674£140
    Match 590£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£7,101,234