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UK Lotto · draw

Wednesday, 5 March 2025

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 18
  3. 19
  4. 30
  5. 43
  6. 44
  7. 58

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 982 of 1,189 under them

← 2025-03-01All recent draws2025-03-08 →

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 feed8 18 19 30 43 44 + 5829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 5 March 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

40oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 22% of every possible ticket.

  • sum33th
  • odd20th
  • low77th
  • widest gap17th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread22th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 100 of each

8108times
1888times
19101times
3085times
43

Prize breakdown · 2025-03-05

  • Lines in play≈ 7.8Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.4Mto 787k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.17

Where the money went

  • Match 411%£507.6K
  • Match 355%£2.4M
  • Match 232%£1.4M
  • 1 other tier2.3%£99.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.17 by chance

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90times
4492times

Every number was expected about that many times after 981 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 6 numbers (30, 43, 44) with the draw of 25 March 2023 — its closest relative in 981 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 March 2025): 19, 43 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

162

The numbers add up to 162 — the 33th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 18–19, 43–44. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

44 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 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 →
£2,000,000
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 1.0 by chanceno winners
  • Match 557≈ 54 by chance£1,750
  • Match 43,626≈ 3.6k by chance£140
  • Match 380,474≈ 81k by chance£30.00
  • Match 2702,689≈ 760k 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 — 702,689 winners, 8% fewer than the 760k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 2702,689£2.00
    Match 380,474£30.00
    Match 43,626£140
    Match 557£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£0.00
    Match 60£2,000,000