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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£24,827,488
The crowdHeld 27% 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 387 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 386 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 20 January 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 32% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 386 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 (33, 41, 44) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 22 October 2013 — its closest relative in 386 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 84% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 January 2015): 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 180 — the 95th 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 →33 had not appeared for 23 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 19% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 901,263 winners, 27% more than the 708k 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 | 901,263 | £3.20 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 406,028 | £7.00 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 103,188 | £10.20 |
| Match 3 | 62,536 | £9.60 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 19,147 | £19.50 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 28,793 | £12.40 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,394 | £58.40 |
| Match 4 | 1,419 | £80.30 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 667 | £171 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 42 | £3,102 |
| Match 5 | 4 | £65,135 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 3 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2 | £12,413,744 |