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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£28,279,072
The crowdHeld 4% 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 527 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 526 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 24 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 53% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 53 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 526 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 2 of 5 numbers (23, 34) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 3 May 2016 — its closest relative in 526 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (20 May 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 9 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 127 — the 49th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →16 had not appeared for 15 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 9% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈22M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,432 winners, 6% fewer than the 1.5k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 924,835 | £3.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 465,310 | £5.80 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 139,929 | £7.10 |
| Match 3 | 64,024 | £8.90 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 27,494 | £12.90 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 32,595 | £10.40 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,925 | £40.00 |
| Match 4 | 1,432 | £75.40 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 734 | £147 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 53 | £2,329 |
| Match 5 | 5 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 5 | £148,144 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £28,279,072 |