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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£43,002,300
The crowdHeld 15% 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 284 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 283 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 24 January 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 64 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 81% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 283 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 (19, 34, 41) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 21 September 2012 — its closest relative in 283 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 74% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 January 2014): 35 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 5 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 134 — the 57th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 34–35. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →34 had not appeared for 55 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈37M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 948 winners, 26% fewer than the 1.3k 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 | 1,366,445 | £3.20 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 758,461 | £5.60 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 234,265 | £6.80 |
| Match 3 | 88,489 | £10.20 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 43,978 | £12.80 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 47,370 | £11.30 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2,665 | £46.00 |
| Match 4 | 1,919 | £89.40 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 948 | £181 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 64 | £3,065 |
| Match 5 | 5 | £78,473 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 7 | £168,156 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £43,002,300 |