Loading…
Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Loading…
Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Eurojackpot · draw
ResultEurojackpot
Jackpot€21,000,000
The crowdHeld 39% more than 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 41 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 40 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 28 December 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 68 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 91% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 4 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 40 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 2 of 5 numbers (5, 39) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 28 September 2012 — its closest relative in 40 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 December 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 8 repeated (46% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 106 — the 24th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. No two numbers side by side. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →8 had not appeared for 17 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 7% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈6.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus Bonus Ball — 236,948 winners, 39% more than the 171k 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 plus Bonus Ball | 236,948 | €7.20 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 74,754 | €11.90 |
| Match 3 | 19,093 | €14.00 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 16,805 | €18.10 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 14,332 | €17.90 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 908 | €69.70 |
| Match 4 | 461 | €96.90 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 372 | €190 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 13 | €6,875 |
| Match 5 | 4 | €24,205 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 3 | €246,864 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | €21,000,000 |