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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€18,642,362
The crowdHeld 17% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 2/10 · Oct 2014 – Mar 2022draw 120 of 389 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 + 2/10 · Oct 2014 – Mar 2022 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 119 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 20 January 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 72 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 96% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 12 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 119 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 3 of 5 numbers (5, 25, 35) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 7 November 2014 — its closest relative in 119 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 43% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 January 2017): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (38% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 128 — the 50th 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 →5 had not appeared for 24 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈21M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 875 winners, 36% fewer than the 1.4k 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 | 407,246 | €7.60 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 161,054 | €7.90 |
| Match 3 | 45,093 | €15.50 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 31,659 | €16.10 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 30,244 | €16.10 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2,387 | €41.10 |
| Match 4 | 875 | €131 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 576 | €256 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 59 | €2,772 |
| Match 5 | 3 | €163,535 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 2 | €695,022 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | €18,642,362 |