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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 22 August 2020

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 19
  2. 23
  3. 24
  4. 28
  5. 37
  6. 51
  7. 12

Jackpot£3,988,224

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 509 of 1,193 under them

← 2020-08-19All recent draws2020-08-26 →

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 feed19 23 24 28 37 51 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 August 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 47% of every possible ticket.

  • sum52th
  • odd77th
  • low77th
  • widest gap23th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread13th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 52 of each

1956times
2352times
2440times
2840times
37

Prize breakdown · 2020-08-22

  • Lines in play≈ 11Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£3.7Mto 107k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.23

Where the money went

  • Match 52.2%£80.5K
  • Match 414%£528.9K
  • Match 384%£3.1M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.23 by chance£3,988,224

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55times
5151times

Every number was expected about that many times after 508 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 (23, 28, 37) with the draw of 20 July 2019 — its closest relative in 508 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (19 August 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

182

The numbers add up to 182 — the 51th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 23–24. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

19 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 73% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.4 by chanceno winners
  • Match 546≈ 73 by chance£1,750
  • Match 43,778≈ 4.8k by chance£140
  • Match 3103,096≈ 109k by chance£30.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.0M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈11M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.0M 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 3103,096£30.00
    Match 43,778£140
    Match 546£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£3,988,224