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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£28,074,424
The crowdHeld 11% 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 77 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 76 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 31 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 37% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 76 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 (34, 38) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 6 December 2011 — its closest relative in 76 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (27 January 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 2 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 169 — the 90th 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 →34 had not appeared for 16 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 16% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈22M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 605 winners, 21% fewer than the 768 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 | 863,991 | £3.20 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 446,389 | £6.20 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 141,326 | £7.20 |
| Match 3 | 57,713 | £10.10 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 24,167 | £15.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 29,624 | £11.70 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,662 | £47.40 |
| Match 4 | 1,218 | £90.70 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 605 | £183 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 42 | £3,006 |
| Match 5 | 6 | £42,088 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 3 | £252,525 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £28,074,424 |