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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£18,422,340
The crowdHeld 18% 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 484 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 483 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 25 December 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 68 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 91% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 48 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 483 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, 10, 27) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 14 September 2012 — its closest relative in 483 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 90% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (22 December 2015): 40 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 105 — the 23th 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 →10 had not appeared for 12 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 1.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈39M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,417,161 winners, 18% fewer than the 1.7M an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 1,417,161 | £2.90 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 776,749 | £5.30 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 251,145 | £6.00 |
| Match 3 | 102,024 | £8.50 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 51,941 | £10.30 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 58,147 | £8.80 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 3,857 | £30.30 |
| Match 4 | 2,538 | £64.60 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,492 | £110 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 94 | £1,995 |
| Match 5 | 7 | £53,576 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 7 | £160,729 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £18,422,340 |