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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£24,146,664
The crowdHeld 10% 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 367 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 366 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 February 2011 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 14% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 37 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 366 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 (2, 3, 15) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 16 December 2005 — its closest relative in 366 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 83% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (11 February 2011): 15 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 114 — the 33th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 2–3. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →45 had not appeared for 13 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 ≈47M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,792 winners, 39% fewer than the 2.9k 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 | 1,108,449 | £6.30 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 460,162 | £6.40 |
| Match 3 | 97,771 | £14.00 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 84,891 | £15.10 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 70,750 | £21.00 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 5,369 | £54.40 |
| Match 4 | 1,792 | £114 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,266 | £231 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 95 | £4,617 |
| Match 5 | 9 | £68,223 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 6 | £360,606 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £24,146,664 |