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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£182,028,000
The crowdHeld 17% more than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 2/12 · since Sep 2016draw 462 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 26 February 2021 — 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 46 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 461 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 (6, 22, 29) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 4 September 2020 — its closest relative in 461 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 89% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 February 2021): nothing 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 102 — the 21th 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 →22 had not appeared for 50 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 1.3× 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 ≈16M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: rang5 — 732 winners, 43% more than the 513 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 | €210,000,000 |
| rang2 | 3 | €2,494,704 |
| rang3 | 11 | €11,696 |
| rang4 | 33 | €1,181 |
| rang5 | 732 | €97.60 |
| rang6 | 1,311 | €52.10 |
| rang7 | 1,575 | €32.10 |
| rang8 | 17,861 | €13.80 |
| rang9 | 29,202 | €9.50 |
| rang10 | 64,848 | €7.90 |
| rang11 | 84,861 | €7.00 |
| rang12 | 370,590 | €5.10 |
| rang13 | 848,606 | €3.60 |