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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£14,081,100
The crowdHeld 29% 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 863 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 31 December 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 43% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 86 of each
Times drawn before — chance expected 144 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 862 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 (19, 26, 33) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 30 November 2021 — its closest relative in 862 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (27 December 2024): 33 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 8 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. No two numbers side by side. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →26 had not appeared for 38 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 7% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈22M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,309,459 winners, 29% more than the 1.0M 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 1,309,459 | £2.60 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 525,874 | £4.10 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 118,600 | £5.80 |
| Match 3 | 90,132 | £6.30 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 22,223 | £12.30 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 36,088 | £8.40 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,606 | £48.70 |
| Match 4 | 1,961 | £28.00 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 782 | £94.60 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 32 | £1,256 |
| Match 5 | 11 | £11,727 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 4 | £137,981 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £14,081,100 |