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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 20 January 2021

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 5
  3. 7
  4. 13
  5. 25
  6. 57
  7. 37

Jackpot£5,159,502

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 552 of 1,189 under them

← 2021-01-16All recent draws2021-01-23 →

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 feed3 5 7 13 25 57 + 3729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 January 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

17oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 17 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum4th
  • odd99th
  • low94th
  • widest gap96th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread91th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 56 of each

350times
551times
753times
1350times
25

Prize breakdown · 2021-01-20

  • Lines in play≈ 12Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.6Mto 123k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.26

Where the money went

  • Match 54.0%£180.3K
  • Match 419%£884.8K
  • Match 377%£3.5M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.26 by chance£5,159,502

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55times
5750times

Every number was expected about that many times after 551 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 (3, 5, 25) with the draw of 3 October 2018 — its closest relative in 551 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 January 2021): 3 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

110

The numbers add up to 110 — the 4th 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

5 had not appeared for 37 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 58% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.6 by chanceno winners
  • Match 5103≈ 82 by chance£1,750
  • Match 46,320≈ 5.4k by chance£140
  • Match 3116,224≈ 123k by chance£30.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.2M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈12M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.2M 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 3116,224£30.00
    Match 46,320£140
    Match 5103£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£5,159,502