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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 25 December 2021

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 15
  2. 24
  3. 26
  4. 30
  5. 42
  6. 59
  7. 18

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 649 of 1,189 under them

← 2021-12-22All recent draws2021-12-29 →

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 feed15 24 26 30 42 59 + 1829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 25 December 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

66oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 83% of every possible ticket.

  • sum65th
  • odd20th
  • low77th
  • widest gap42th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread50th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 66 of each

1560times
2455times
2664times
3060times
42

Prize breakdown · 2021-12-25

  • Lines in play≈ 18Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£13.8Mto 185k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.40

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball8.6%£1.2M
  • Match 411%£1.5M
  • Match 377%£10.7M
  • 1 other tier3.8%£518.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.40 by chance

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71times
5963times

Every number was expected about that many times after 648 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, 30, 59) with the draw of 25 August 2021 — its closest relative in 648 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 December 2021): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

196

The numbers add up to 196 — the 65th 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

26 had not appeared for 43 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 71% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£15,000,000
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 2.4 by chance£1,192,535
  • Match 5113≈ 125 by chance£4,589
  • Match 47,246≈ 8.3k by chance£201
  • Match 3177,567≈ 188k by chance£60.00
  • Match 20≈ 1.8M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈18M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 1.8M 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 3177,567£60.00
    Match 47,246£201
    Match 5113£4,589
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£1,192,535
    Match 60£15,000,000