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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 28 August 2024

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 10
  3. 25
  4. 29
  5. 49
  6. 53
  7. 30

Jackpot£8,460,930

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 928 of 1,189 under them

← 2024-08-24All recent draws2024-08-31 →

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 10 25 29 49 53 + 3029 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 August 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

61oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 71% of every possible ticket.

  • sum40th
  • odd77th
  • low77th
  • widest gap62th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread71th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 94 of each

494times
1094times
2590times
2996times
49

Prize breakdown · 2024-08-28

  • Lines in play≈ 7.8Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.3Mto 781k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.17

Where the money went

  • Match 411%£471.5K
  • Match 354%£2.3M
  • Match 233%£1.4M
  • 1 other tier1.9%£82.3K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.17 by chance

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95times
5391times

Every number was expected about that many times after 927 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 (10, 25, 29) with the draw of 20 March 2024 — its closest relative in 927 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 August 2024): 4 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

170

The numbers add up to 170 — the 40th 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 10 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 67% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£8,460,930
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.0 by chanceno winners
  • Match 547≈ 54 by chance£1,750
  • Match 43,368≈ 3.6k by chance£140
  • Match 376,490≈ 81k by chance£30.00
  • Match 2701,370≈ 759k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈7.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 701,370 winners, 8% fewer than the 759k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 2701,370£2.00
    Match 376,490£30.00
    Match 43,368£140
    Match 547£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£8,460,930