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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£12,870,000
The crowdHeld 15% 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 553 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 552 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 23 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 47% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 55 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 552 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 (2, 23, 31) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 10 March 2015 — its closest relative in 552 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 93% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 August 2016): 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 138 — the 62th 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 →23 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 0.8× 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 ≈20M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 519 winners, 25% fewer than the 697 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 | 750,100 | £3.10 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 368,072 | £6.20 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 128,143 | £6.50 |
| Match 3 | 49,208 | £9.70 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 23,770 | £12.50 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 24,230 | £11.70 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,518 | £42.70 |
| Match 4 | 1,053 | £86.20 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 519 | £175 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 28 | £3,706 |
| Match 5 | 6 | £34,592 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 3 | £207,554 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £12,870,000 |