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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£15,634,628
The crowdHeld 34% 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 465 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 464 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 October 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 76% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 46 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 464 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 (19, 21, 45) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 1 September 2015 — its closest relative in 464 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 89% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (16 October 2015): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 10 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 132 — the 55th 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 →45 had not appeared for 13 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as 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 ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 67,719 winners, 37% more than the 49k 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 | 948,557 | £2.80 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 418,344 | £6.20 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 103,167 | £9.30 |
| Match 3 | 67,719 | £8.10 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 20,380 | £16.70 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 30,320 | £10.70 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,506 | £49.30 |
| Match 4 | 1,494 | £69.70 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 685 | £152 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 28 | £4,251 |
| Match 5 | 14 | £17,004 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 2 | £357,074 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £15,634,628 |