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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£31,462,688
The crowdHeld 14% 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 377 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 376 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 16 December 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 21 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 38 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 376 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 (3, 7, 25) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 25 November 2014 — its closest relative in 376 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 83% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 December 2014): nothing 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 60 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 12–13. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →12 had not appeared for 24 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 2.7× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% 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 — 1,889 winners, 59% 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 | 1,291,897 | £2.20 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 698,421 | £4.00 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 219,081 | £4.80 |
| Match 3 | 121,819 | £4.90 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 50,500 | £7.30 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 63,772 | £5.50 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 4,500 | £18.00 |
| Match 4 | 3,677 | £30.80 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,889 | £60.00 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 131 | £990 |
| Match 5 | 11 | £23,585 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 5 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £31,462,688 |