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Set for Life · draw

Thursday, 20 August 2020

ResultSet for Life

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 5
  3. 17
  4. 27
  5. 36
  6. 2

Jackpot£3,600,000

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

Rules5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019draw 150 of 792 under them

← 2020-08-17All recent draws2020-08-24 →

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 5 17 27 36 + 229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 August 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

59oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 71% of every possible ticket.

  • sum15th
  • odd65th
  • low65th
  • widest gap25th
  • neighbours79th
  • spread46th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 16 of each

421times
516times
1716times
2713times
36

Prize breakdown · 2020-08-20

  • Lines in play≈ 2.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 184k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.15

Where the money went

  • Match 318%£242.4K
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11%£153.4K
  • Match 257%£776.0K
  • 4 other tiers13%£180.4K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.15 by chance

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15times
Stars · a separate 1-of-10 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 15 of each

216times

Every number was expected about that many times after 149 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 5 numbers (4, 17, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 October 2019 — its closest relative in 149 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 58% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 August 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 45% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (10% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

89

The numbers add up to 89 — the 14th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 120. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5. 37% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

4 had not appeared for 11 draws. A number waits about 9 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£3,600,000
  • Match 51≈ 1.4 by chance£120,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball34≈ 32 by chance£250
  • Match 4333≈ 284 by chance£50.00
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,174≈ 1.3k by chance£30.00
  • Match 312,122≈ 12k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,336≈ 17k by chance£10.00
  • Match 2155,199≈ 155k by chance£5.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus Bonus Ball — 15,336 winners, 11% fewer than the 17k 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 2155,199£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,336£10.00
    Match 312,122£20.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,174£30.00
    Match 4333£50.00
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball34£250
    Match 51£120,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£3,600,000