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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 26 February 2025

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 4
  3. 10
  4. 26
  5. 31
  6. 40
  7. 24

Jackpot£5,317,005

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 980 of 1,189 under them

← 2025-02-22All recent draws2025-03-01 →

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 feed1 4 10 26 31 40 + 2429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 February 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 38% of every possible ticket.

  • sum4th
  • odd20th
  • low77th
  • widest gap36th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread31th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 100 of each

190times
499times
1098times
2693times
31

Prize breakdown · 2025-02-26

  • Lines in play≈ 8.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£12.8Mto 884k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 63 winnerschance said 0.19

Where the money went

  • Match 642%£5.3M
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball16%£2M
  • Match 323%£3M
  • 3 other tiers19%£2.5M
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 63≈ 0.19 by chance

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104times
4093times

Every number was expected about that many times after 979 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, 10, 40) with the draw of 21 December 2024 — its closest relative in 979 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 February 2025): nothing carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

112

The numbers add up to 112 — the 4th 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

4 had not appeared for 19 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 2.1× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 53% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£1,772,335
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 1.2 by chance£1,000,000
  • Match 595≈ 60 by chance£1,750
  • Match 45,400≈ 4.0k by chance£140
  • Match 399,587≈ 90k by chance£30.00
  • Match 2778,757≈ 842k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈8.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 5,400 winners, 36% more than the 4.0k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 2778,757£2.00
    Match 399,587£30.00
    Match 45,400£140
    Match 595£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£1,000,000
    Match 63£1,772,335