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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£31,879,970
The crowdHeld 46% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 2/11 · May 2011 – Sep 2016draw 67 of 562 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 + 2/11 · May 2011 – Sep 2016 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 66 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 27 December 2011 — 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 76% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 66 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 (21, 44) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 9 December 2011 — its closest relative in 66 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 December 2011): 21 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 135 — the 59th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 25–26. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →26 had not appeared for 9 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 1.1× 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 ≈41M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,207 winners, 57% fewer than the 2.8k 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 | 953,228 | £2.90 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 547,166 | £5.00 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 259,247 | £3.90 |
| Match 3 | 61,508 | £9.30 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 48,677 | £7.30 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 35,041 | £9.70 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 3,090 | £25.20 |
| Match 4 | 1,207 | £90.50 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 685 | £159 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 64 | £1,951 |
| Match 5 | 5 | £49,945 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 1 | — |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £31,879,970 |