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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£59,249,232
The crowdHeld 18% more 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 286 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 285 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 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 23% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 29 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 285 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 (10, 16, 31) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 7 December 2012 — its closest relative in 285 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 74% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (28 January 2014): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 9 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 80 — the 6th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 15–16. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 had not appeared for 43 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 3.0× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈34M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 1,620 winners, 38% more than the 1.2k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 | 1,749,766 | £2.80 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 950,121 | £5.10 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 215,855 | £8.30 |
| Match 3 | 130,093 | £7.80 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 43,527 | £14.60 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 69,584 | £8.70 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 3,220 | £43.10 |
| Match 4 | 2,832 | £68.60 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,620 | £120 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 75 | £2,961 |
| Match 5 | 12 | £37,012 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 2 | £666,220 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £59,249,232 |