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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£27,784,790
The crowdHeld 32% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 2/12 · since Sep 2016draw 448 of 1,049 under them
Sources3 independent sources agree, 1 official. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 January 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 42% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 45 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 447 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 (18, 41, 42) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 18 October 2019 — its closest relative in 447 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 88% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 January 2021): 37, 42 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (32% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 161 — the 85th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 41–42. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →23 had not appeared for 22 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 0.5× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 13% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈7.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: rang7 — 282 winners, 44% fewer than the 505 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 |
|---|---|---|
| rang1 | 0 | €0.00 |
| rang2 | 1 | €180,404 |
| rang3 | 1 | €28,109 |
| rang4 | 8 | €1,118 |
| rang5 | 160 | €134 |
| rang6 | 383 | €59.50 |
| rang7 | 282 | €48.80 |
| rang8 | 6,686 | €12.70 |
| rang9 | 6,144 | €12.60 |
| rang10 | 13,211 | €10.80 |
| rang11 | 37,172 | €5.90 |
| rang12 | 100,139 | €5.90 |
| rang13 | 215,691 | €4.30 |