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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
UK Lotto · draw
ResultUK Lotto
Jackpot£7,663,814
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 1,124 of 1,193 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 15 July 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 22 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 114 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,123 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 →Shares 3 of 6 numbers (4, 17, 23) with the draw of 30 May 2026 — its closest relative in 1,123 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (11 July 2026): 13 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 102 — the 2th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 180. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14. 43% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →14 had not appeared for 19 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 →A line like this is played about 2.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 50% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈12M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 7,424 winners, 31% more than the 5.6k 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.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 1,109,486 | £1.00 |
| Match 3 | 134,719 | £10.00 |
| Match 4 | 7,424 | £50.00 |
| Match 5 | 136 | £1,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 2 | £1,000,000 |
| Match 6 | 0 | £7,663,814 |