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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£75,779,937
The crowdHeld 46% 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 763 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 16 January 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 73 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 98% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 76 of each
Times drawn before — chance expected 127 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 762 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 (10, 21, 33) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 8 September 2023 — its closest relative in 762 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (12 January 2024): 18, 45 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 12 repeated (32% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 127 — the 49th 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 →21 had not appeared for 19 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈3.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: rang10 — 16,444 winners, 55% more than the 11k 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 | 1 | €87,952,574 |
| rang2 | 1 | €201,337 |
| rang3 | 3 | €6,417 |
| rang4 | 3 | €1,466 |
| rang5 | 195 | €94.40 |
| rang6 | 255 | €71.10 |
| rang7 | 444 | €29.20 |
| rang8 | 3,473 | €17.90 |
| rang9 | 6,400 | €11.00 |
| rang10 | 16,444 | €8.10 |
| rang11 | 17,759 | €8.60 |
| rang12 | 85,432 | €5.80 |
| rang13 | 222,344 | €3.70 |