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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£10,908,000
The crowdHeld 24% 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 450 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 449 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 28 August 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 34% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 45 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 449 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 (29, 30, 34) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 16 January 2015 — its closest relative in 449 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 88% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 August 2015): 31 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 135 — the 59th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 29–30, 30–31. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →30 had not appeared for 29 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% 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 — 1,555 winners, 39% fewer than the 2.6k 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 | 1,221,965 | £3.30 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 657,972 | £6.00 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 234,686 | £6.20 |
| Match 3 | 80,552 | £10.30 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 44,050 | £11.70 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 43,582 | £11.30 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2,931 | £38.40 |
| Match 4 | 1,555 | £101 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 842 | £187 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 67 | £2,691 |
| Match 5 | 3 | £120,186 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 4 | £270,418 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £10,908,000 |