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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.
EuroMillions · draw
ResultEuroMillions
Jackpot£52,883,496
The crowdHeld 7% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 2/9 · Feb 2004 – May 2011draw 306 of 378 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
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 305 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 December 2009 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 79% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 31 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 305 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 (30, 49) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 14 August 2009 — its closest relative in 305 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (11 December 2009): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (42% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 160 — the 84th 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 →14 had not appeared for 21 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 13% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈47M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 1,541 winners, 21% fewer than the 1.9k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 0 | — |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 1,145,864 | £7.30 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 459,962 | £7.70 |
| Match 3 | 111,728 | £14.70 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 82,249 | £18.80 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 74,412 | £24.10 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 5,258 | £66.80 |
| Match 4 | 2,422 | £102 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,541 | £228 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 115 | £4,588 |
| Match 5 | 11 | £67,146 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 3 | £867,567 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £52,883,496 |