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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 2 May 2026

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 4
  3. 6
  4. 12
  5. 29
  6. 40
  7. 19

Jackpot£3,892,070

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 1,103 of 1,189 under them

← 2026-04-29All recent draws2026-05-06 →

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 feed3 4 6 12 29 40 + 1917 Oct 2026, 21:20 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 2 May 2026 — 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.

  • sum1th
  • odd20th
  • low94th
  • widest gap42th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread25th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 112 of each

3114times
4110times
6103times
12114times
29

Prize breakdown · 2026-05-02

  • Lines in play≈ 13Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£17.6Mto 1.4M winning lines
  • Won something1 in 10lines took a prize
  • Match 61 winnerchance said 0.29

Where the money went

  • Match 622%£3.9M
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball28%£5M
  • Match 327%£4.8M
  • 3 other tiers22%£3.9M
Tier1101001k10k100k1M10MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 61≈ 0.29 by chance

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113times
40109times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,102 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 (3, 6, 12, 40) with the draw of 6 June 2020 — its closest relative in 1,102 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 40% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 April 2026): 4 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

94

The numbers add up to 94 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 3–4. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

40 had not appeared for 9 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 2.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 49% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£3,892,070
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball5≈ 1.8 by chance£1,000,000
  • Match 5149≈ 92 by chance£1,750
  • Match 48,720≈ 6.1k by chance£140
  • Match 3161,189≈ 138k by chance£30.00
  • Match 21,197,368≈ 1.3M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈13M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 8,720 winners, 43% more than the 6.1k 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 21,197,368£2.00
    Match 3161,189£30.00
    Match 48,720£140
    Match 5149£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball5£1,000,000
    Match 61£3,892,070