UK Lotto records & curiosities
Biggest jackpots, longest runs without a winner, numbers with the longest gaps and other oddities from 3217 draws since 19/11/1994.
❄ Longest gap for a number
111
The 21 was not drawn for 111 draws (01/09/2018 – 28/09/2019).
🔥 Most frequently drawn / Least frequently drawn
42 137× 39 136× 54 134×
21 97× 48 101× 30 102×
Σ Lowest and highest sum
Lowest sum 38 on 21/06/2023 (1 3 4 7 8 15), highest sum 305 on 02/03/2022 (43 48 49 52 55 58).
🔗 Longest run of consecutive numbers in a draw
4 consecutive numbers on 23/01/2016: 8 9 10 11.
👯 Most frequent pair of numbers
2 and 54 came up together 23 times (expected ≈ 10,1).
⚖ All even or all odd
9 draws with only even numbers, 19 with only odd numbers (expected ≈ 12,1 each).
♻ Repeated winning combinations
No winning combination has been drawn twice so far.
Records are interesting but not a pattern: with this many draws, such outliers are exactly what chance would lead you to expect.