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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 20 December 2023

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 8
  3. 11
  4. 46
  5. 50
  6. 53
  7. 16

Jackpot£2,000,000

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 856 of 1,189 under them

← 2023-12-16All recent draws2023-12-23 →

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 feed4 8 11 46 50 53 + 1629 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 December 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

57oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 61% of every possible ticket.

  • sum42th
  • odd20th
  • low48th
  • widest gap98th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread71th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 87 of each

489times
896times
1191times
4693times
50

Prize breakdown · 2023-12-20

  • Lines in play≈ 6.9Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£3.5Mto 685k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.15

Where the money went

  • Match 49.3%£322.1K
  • Match 353%£1.8M
  • Match 236%£1.2M
  • 1 other tier2.1%£73.5K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.15 by chance

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85times
5380times

Every number was expected about that many times after 855 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 (11, 46, 53) with the draw of 2 September 2023 — its closest relative in 855 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 December 2023): 4, 50 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

172

The numbers add up to 172 — the 42th 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

8 had not appeared for 18 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 →
£2,000,000
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.92 by chanceno winners
  • Match 542≈ 48 by chance£1,750
  • Match 42,301≈ 3.2k by chance£140
  • Match 360,406≈ 72k by chance£30.00
  • Match 2621,824≈ 673k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈6.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 2,301 winners, 27% fewer than the 3.2k 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 2621,824£2.00
    Match 360,406£30.00
    Match 42,301£140
    Match 542£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£2,000,000