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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.
Eurojackpot · draw
ResultEurojackpot
Jackpot€10,000,000
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
Rules5/50 + 2/8 · Mar 2012 – Oct 2014draw 9 of 133 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
Eurojackpot was a 5/50 + 2/8 · Mar 2012 – Oct 2014 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 8 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 May 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 31% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 1 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 8 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 5 numbers (12) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 13 April 2012 — its closest relative in 8 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (11 May 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 5 repeated (46% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 163 — the 87th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 43–44. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →46 had not appeared for 8 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈5.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls — 9,556 winners, 27% fewer than the 13k 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.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 154,735 | €8.20 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 68,999 | €9.60 |
| Match 3 | 11,857 | €16.10 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 9,556 | €23.90 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 12,424 | €16.10 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 729 | €64.90 |
| Match 4 | 241 | €139 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 182 | €291 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 16 | €4,178 |
| Match 5 | 1 | €72,418 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 1 | €278,530 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | €10,000,000 |