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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£54,491,831
The crowdHeld 29% 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 835 of 1,049 under them
Sources2 independent sources agree, none of them 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 24 September 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 64 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 82% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 83 of each
Times drawn before — chance expected 139 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 834 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 (20, 21, 36) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 7 August 2020 — its closest relative in 834 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (20 September 2024): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 3 repeated (32% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 144 — the 69th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →36 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 ≈24M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,096 winners, 38% fewer than the 1.8k 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 793,593 | £3.20 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 400,108 | £4.00 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 129,548 | £3.90 |
| Match 3 | 51,717 | £8.10 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 22,528 | £8.90 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 24,809 | £9.00 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,429 | £40.20 |
| Match 4 | 1,096 | £36.80 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 535 | £102 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 25 | £1,181 |
| Match 5 | 2 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 4 | £101,411 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £54,491,831 |