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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£43,086,064
The crowdHeld 27% 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 255 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 254 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 15 October 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 36 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 16% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 254 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 (27, 39) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 16 August 2013 — its closest relative in 254 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (11 October 2013): 43 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 174 — the 93th 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 →47 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 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 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 ≈29M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 930,458 winners, 27% fewer than the 1.3M 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 | 930,458 | £3.20 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 512,393 | £5.70 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 186,669 | £5.70 |
| Match 3 | 68,093 | £9.00 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 35,849 | £10.60 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 36,882 | £9.90 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2,682 | £31.00 |
| Match 4 | 1,857 | £62.70 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 985 | £118 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 76 | £1,751 |
| Match 5 | 10 | £26,616 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 2 | £399,237 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £43,086,064 |