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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 8 August 2020

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 40
  3. 49
  4. 53
  5. 56
  6. 58
  7. 41

Jackpot£7,178,766

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 505 of 1,193 under them

← 2020-08-05All recent draws2020-08-12 →

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 feed2 40 49 53 56 58 + 4129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 August 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

20oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 20 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 2% of every possible ticket.

  • sum98th
  • odd20th
  • low5th
  • widest gap99th
  • neighbours29th
  • spread96th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 51 of each

254times
4058times
4947times
5345times
56

Prize breakdown · 2020-08-08

  • Lines in play≈ 6.8Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£4.4Mto 69k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 98lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.15

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball45%£2M
  • Match 48.5%£377.4K
  • Match 345%£2M
  • 1 other tier1.3%£56K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1M10MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.15 by chance

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51times
5864times

Every number was expected about that many times after 504 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 (2, 53, 56, 58) with the draw of 20 March 2019 — its closest relative in 504 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 21% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 August 2020): 58 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

258

The numbers add up to 258 — the 97th 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

40 had not appeared for 14 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 87% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£7,178,766
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 0.90 by chance£1,000,000
  • Match 532≈ 47 by chance£1,750
  • Match 42,696≈ 3.1k by chance£140
  • Match 366,649≈ 71k by chance£30.00
  • Match 20≈ 662k by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈6.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 662k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 20£2.00
    Match 366,649£30.00
    Match 42,696£140
    Match 532£1,750
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£1,000,000
    Match 60£7,178,766