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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£12,693,000
The crowdHeld 34% 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 329 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 328 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 May 2010 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 40% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 33 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 328 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 (9, 33) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 30 October 2009 — its closest relative in 328 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 May 2010): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 7 repeated (42% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 109 — the 28th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 31–32, 32–33. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →4 had not appeared for 18 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 ≈61M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 1,189 winners, 53% fewer than the 2.5k 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 | 0 | — |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 1,052,174 | £6.50 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 593,428 | £4.80 |
| Match 3 | 96,204 | £13.90 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 104,351 | £12.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 63,784 | £22.80 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 5,666 | £50.50 |
| Match 4 | 1,993 | £101 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,189 | £241 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 93 | £4,619 |
| Match 5 | 5 | £120,289 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 8 | £264,922 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £12,693,000 |