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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 16 December 2023

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 12
  3. 23
  4. 30
  5. 50
  6. 56
  7. 8

Jackpot£3,800,000

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 855 of 1,189 under them

← 2023-12-13All recent draws2023-12-20 →

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 12 23 30 50 56 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 December 2023 — 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 49% of every possible ticket.

  • sum45th
  • odd5th
  • low77th
  • widest gap62th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread84th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 87 of each

488times
1284times
2386times
3078times
50

Prize breakdown · 2023-12-16

  • Lines in play≈ 11Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£9.7Mto 1.1M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 61 winnerchance said 0.25

Where the money went

  • Match 639%£3.8M
  • Match 333%£3.2M
  • Match 221%£2.1M
  • 2 other tiers7.0%£684.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 61≈ 0.25 by chance

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84times
5688times

Every number was expected about that many times after 854 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 (4, 12, 56) with the draw of 7 June 2023 — its closest relative in 854 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 December 2023): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

175

The numbers add up to 175 — the 45th 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

30 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 1.4× 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 →
£3,800,000
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.5 by chanceno winners
  • Match 557≈ 79 by chance£1,750
  • Match 44,176≈ 5.2k by chance£140
  • Match 3106,059≈ 118k by chance£30.00
  • Match 21,026,836≈ 1.1M 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 4 — 4,176 winners, 20% fewer than the 5.2k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 21,026,836£2.00
    Match 3106,059£30.00
    Match 44,176£140
    Match 557£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 61£3,800,000