Draw Engine Draw verification round …

Staging 26 Oct 00:08 — Auto

Draw verification, recomputed from published evidence every time this page is loaded.

Receipt 01M5TTXGV58JEC4FQ7G0555DET
drand round 33,390,793
Drawn 2026-10-26 00:49:08Z

Checked in your browser

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Your browser is recomputing this draw from the published evidence.

  1. …
    Receipt matches its published fingerprint
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  2. …
    Entry list downloaded and hashed in your browser
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  3. …
    Randomness fetched directly from drand
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  4. …
    Winner recomputed from those two inputs
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This runs entirely in your browser — read the code. The randomness is fetched from drand's own servers, so we are not in that request path. The one thing your browser cannot establish alone is that this entry list is the one that existed before the draw. That is what the external timestamp from rfc3161 proves — check it offline with openssl ts -verify.

Result

#41 winning ticket

Valid tickets in the draw 16
Numbers drawn 3 drawn from the range 1–60, 2 skipped as unsold
The draw, in order #14 unsold #40 unsold #41 sold, wins These are not separate draws. One round of public randomness produces one seed, and that seed produces this exact sequence in this exact order — so nobody could stop earlier, carry on further, or run it again for a different answer.
Entries closed Mon, Oct 26, 2026 12:47 AM UTC
Drawn Mon, Oct 26, 2026 12:49 AM UTC

Times here are UTC, deliberately. They are meant to be checked against things outside this site — openssl ts -verify prints the timestamp token in UTC, and drand's round schedule is UTC — so showing them in local time would make this page disagree with the very evidence it invites you to check it against.

The ordering this rests on

The entry list was sealed before the number that chose the winner existed.

entry list sealed 2026-10-26 00:47:05Z RFC 3161 timestamp from rfc3161
118s apart
randomness published 2026-10-26 00:49:03Z drand round 33,390,793, on its fixed public schedule

Our clock is on neither side of this. The left time is certified by a timestamping authority with no relationship to us; the right is computed from drand's genesis and period, which anyone can do from public parameters.

Our own re-check

PASS

Our server also recomputed this draw from its original evidence just now, and the result matches. You should not need to take our word for it — the check above is the one that counts.

Verification checks

How this draw worked

One winning ticket, drawn from a public randomness beacon nobody controls.

  1. When entries closed, every valid ticket was written to a single list in a fixed order, and that list was fingerprinted (SHA-256). Paid and free entries are in the same list, allocated by the same process.
  2. That fingerprint was timestamped by an external service before the random number used to pick the winner existed. So the entry list could not be changed afterwards to suit the result.
  3. The random number came from drand, a public randomness beacon run by an independent group of organisations. The exact round was named in advance, and its cryptographic signature is checked here — not merely trusted.
  4. The entry list fingerprint and the random number were combined to produce one position in the list. Ticket 41 was at that position.

Because every input was fixed before the randomness was known, and every input is published below, anyone can repeat this calculation and get the same answer. Nobody at Draw Engine (staging) could have chosen the outcome.

The exact inputs

Competition ID01M5TRKMHP4PGVWWBX8TG6EP4D
JurisdictionGB
Terms version2026-10
Entry list fingerprint b2a2b6b79bdb4acaf3864ae1ef8ddf9baf082af77cf6fe7534a04d3dbc10f895
Entry list formatsnapshot-v1
Fingerprint timestamped Mon, Oct 26, 2026 12:47 AM UTC · rfc3161
Randomness networkdrand · 52db9ba70e0cc0f6eaf7803dd07447a1f5477735fd3f661792ba94600c84e971
Signature schemebls-unchained-g1-rfc9380
Round33390793
Randomness 9591969ce3c1e4bd24c3d363ee97664eb7f342aa1e1f84730862d3bc78af4dfe
Round signatureb446c983873f925bd807b75a0f217eaa81fb4d58b62d6fca81e7da50b94b12228c1783017e89d15777bbebd996bbf1ea
Chain public key83cf0f2896adee7eb8b5f01fcad3912212c437e0073e911fb90022d3e760183c8c4b450b6a0a6c3ac6a5776a2d1064510d1fec758c921cc22b0e17e63aaf4bcb5ed66304de9cf809bd274ca73bab4af5a6e9c76a4bc09e76eae8991ef5ece45a
Algorithmwinner-selector-v1 / drng-v1
Receipt fingerprint d9f1e8b16138b1b7e364db8f5fee9c05fb9aaecbaa965cba20abd449a124aa35
Seed, derived in your browser not yet computed

The verification package contains the entry list, the randomness proof, the receipt and a full specification of the algorithms, so the result can be reproduced with no access to our systems. It contains no personal data: entries appear only as opaque identifiers.

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