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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 23 December 2023

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 29
  3. 31
  4. 40
  5. 47
  6. 56
  7. 44

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 857 of 1,189 under them

← 2023-12-20All recent draws2023-12-27 →

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 feed17 29 31 40 47 56 + 4429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 23 December 2023 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

44oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 29% of every possible ticket.

  • sum84th
  • odd77th
  • low20th
  • widest gap13th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread31th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 87 of each

1782times
2984times
3191times
4083times
47

Prize breakdown · 2023-12-23

  • Lines in play≈ 19Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£27.1Mto 1.9M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 61 winnerchance said 0.43

Where the money went

  • Match 655%£15.0M
  • Match 320%£5.4M
  • Match 213%£3.5M
  • 3 other tiers12%£3.3M
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 61≈ 0.43 by chance

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90times
5689times

Every number was expected about that many times after 856 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 4 of 6 numbers (17, 29, 47, 56) with the draw of 6 March 2021 — its closest relative in 856 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 33% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 December 2023): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

220

The numbers add up to 220 — the 83th 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

29 had not appeared for 29 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 79% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£15,000,000
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 2.6 by chance£1,000,000
  • Match 598≈ 134 by chance£1,750
  • Match 47,812≈ 8.9k by chance£140
  • Match 3178,650≈ 201k by chance£30.00
  • Match 21,745,145≈ 1.9M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈19M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 7,812 winners, 12% fewer than the 8.9k 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 21,745,145£2.00
    Match 3178,650£30.00
    Match 47,812£140
    Match 598£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£1,000,000
    Match 61£15,000,000