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EuroMillions · draw

Friday, 8 May 2009

ResultEuroMillions

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 23
  3. 24
  4. 29
  5. 31
  6. 8
  7. 9

Jackpot£113,229,888

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/50 + 2/9 · Feb 2004 – May 2011draw 274 of 378 under them

← 2009-05-01All recent draws2009-05-15 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed4 23 24 29 31 + 8 929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC
Drawn under earlier rules

EuroMillions was a 5/50 + 2/9 · Feb 2004 – May 2011 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 273 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 8 May 2009 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 66% of every possible ticket.

  • sum30th
  • odd66th
  • low66th
  • widest gap65th
  • neighbours80th
  • spread21th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

430times
2328times
2421times
2929times
31

Prize breakdown · 2009-05-08

  • Paid out£0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls0 winners£113.2M
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1M10M100M1BPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£113,229,888
  2. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£244,318
  3. Match 50

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23times
Stars · a separate 1-of-9 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 61 of each

860times
952times

Every number was expected about that many times after 273 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (4, 23, 24) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 17 February 2006 — its closest relative in 273 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 73% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 May 2009): 31 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (42% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

111

The numbers add up to 111 — the 30th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 23–24. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

29 had not appeared for 14 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 →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 2.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£47,147
  • Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£4,431
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0£177
  • Match 40£78.80
  • Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£68.00
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0£19.70
  • Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£20.30
  • Match 30£11.30
  • Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£8.60
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0£6.10
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 20—
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0£6.10
    Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£8.60
    Match 30£11.30
    Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£20.30
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0£19.70
    Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£68.00
    Match 40£78.80
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0£177
    Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£4,431
    Match 50£47,147
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£244,318
    Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls0£113,229,888