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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£42,059,626
The crowdHeld 26% 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 857 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 10 December 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 55 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 57% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 86 of each
Times drawn before — chance expected 143 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 856 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 (5, 25, 29) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 16 February 2021 — its closest relative in 856 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (6 December 2024): 25, 47 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 130 — the 52th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 24–25. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →5 had not appeared for 37 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈26M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,118 winners, 40% fewer than the 1.9k 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 | 859,369 | £3.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 434,741 | £3.60 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 136,199 | £3.70 |
| Match 3 | 56,637 | £7.40 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 27,028 | £7.40 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 28,922 | £7.80 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,816 | £31.70 |
| Match 4 | 1,118 | £36.10 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 596 | £91.30 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 30 | £985 |
| Match 5 | 3 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 1 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £42,059,626 |