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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£24,759,542
The crowdHeld 9% 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 340 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 339 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 8 August 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 27 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 34 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 339 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 (35, 43) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 29 July 2014 — its closest relative in 339 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 August 2014): 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 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 →29 had not appeared for 6 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 4 plus Bonus Ball — 733 winners, 28% fewer than the 1.0k 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 | 1,160,491 | £3.30 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 554,002 | £6.70 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 186,086 | £7.40 |
| Match 3 | 75,220 | £10.50 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 32,074 | £15.30 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 35,447 | £13.20 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2,057 | £51.90 |
| Match 4 | 1,642 | £91.10 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 733 | £204 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 42 | £4,072 |
| Match 5 | 11 | £31,096 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 4 | £256,542 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £24,759,542 |