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UK Lotto · draw

Saturday, 8 April 2023

ResultUK Lotto

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 12
  3. 19
  4. 20
  5. 24
  6. 42
  7. 17

Jackpot£20,000,000

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 783 of 1,193 under them

← 2023-04-05All recent draws2023-04-12 →

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 feed4 12 19 20 24 42 + 1729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 April 2023 — 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.

  • sum7th
  • odd5th
  • low94th
  • widest gap49th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread28th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 80 of each

480times
1271times
1978times
2083times
24

Prize breakdown · 2023-04-08

  • Lines in play≈ 24Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£21.7Mto 247k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 97lines took a prize
  • Match 60 winnerschance said 0.53

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball11%£2.3M
  • Match 412%£2.5M
  • Match 374%£15.9M
  • 1 other tier4.2%£909K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1M10M100MPrize each
  1. Match 60≈ 0.53 by chance

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71times
4288times

Every number was expected about that many times after 782 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 (12, 19, 42) with the draw of 13 July 2022 — its closest relative in 782 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 April 2023): 4 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

121

The numbers add up to 121 — the 7th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 had not appeared for 15 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 1.8× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 58% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£20,000,000
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 3.2 by chance£1,159,871
  • Match 5215≈ 165 by chance£4,228
  • Match 412,625≈ 11k by chance£199
  • Match 3234,370≈ 248k by chance£68.00
  • Match 20≈ 2.3M by chance£2.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈24M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 2.3M 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 3234,370£68.00
    Match 412,625£199
    Match 5215£4,228
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£1,159,871
    Match 60£20,000,000