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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£86,284,946
The crowdHeld 66% 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 618 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 August 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 40% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 62 of each
Times drawn before — chance expected 103 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 617 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 (22, 38, 44) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 9 February 2018 — its closest relative in 617 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 August 2022): 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 152 — the 78th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 22–23. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →22 had not appeared for 20 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 ≈4.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: rang13 — 331,956 winners, 66% more than the 200k 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 | €0.00 |
| rang2 | 1 | €143,631 |
| rang3 | 2 | €22,379 |
| rang4 | 4 | €1,743 |
| rang5 | 159 | €152 |
| rang6 | 335 | €78.30 |
| rang7 | 499 | €38.50 |
| rang8 | 4,351 | €19.30 |
| rang9 | 7,443 | €13.20 |
| rang10 | 22,154 | €8.50 |
| rang11 | 23,317 | €9.10 |
| rang12 | 110,873 | €6.40 |
| rang13 | 331,956 | €3.60 |