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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£20,257,320
The crowdHeld 7% 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 554 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 553 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 26 August 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 66% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 55 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 553 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 (9, 28, 30) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 7 October 2014 — its closest relative in 553 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 93% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 August 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 8 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 116 — the 35th 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 →9 had not appeared for 28 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈25M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus Bonus Ball — 646,104 winners, 19% more than the 543k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 1,158,861 | £2.80 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 646,104 | £5.00 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 158,445 | £7.50 |
| Match 3 | 79,654 | £8.50 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 29,949 | £14.10 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 43,710 | £9.20 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,918 | £48.00 |
| Match 4 | 1,717 | £75.20 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 962 | £134 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 49 | £3,012 |
| Match 5 | 9 | £32,797 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 6 | £147,585 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £20,257,320 |