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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 · round 1
round 1UK Lotto
Jackpot£5,844,340
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 6 of 1,193 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 26 Sept 2026, 20:45 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 September 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 38% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 5 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 1 of 6 numbers (42) with the draw of 23 September 2026 — its closest relative in 5 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 September 2026): 42 carried over. Chance says 49% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 235 — the 91th 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 →27 had not appeared for 3 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 85% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈8.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 3,099 winners, 20% fewer than the 3.9k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 761,291 | £1.00 |
| Match 3 | 75,850 | £10.00 |
| Match 4 | 3,099 | £50.00 |
| Match 5 | 42 | £1,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 2 | £1,000,000 |
| Match 6 | 1 | £5,844,340 |