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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£72,694,900
The crowdHeld 3% 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 869 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 21 January 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 87% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 87 of each
Times drawn before — chance expected 145 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 868 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 (6, 27, 41) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 19 July 2022 — its closest relative in 868 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (17 January 2025): 8 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 96 — the 16th 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 →14 had not appeared for 9 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 1.4× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈21M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 837 winners, 25% more than the 668 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 | 974,545 | £2.70 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 482,098 | £3.40 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 110,536 | £4.80 |
| Match 3 | 71,448 | £6.10 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 21,547 | £9.80 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 35,112 | £6.70 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,514 | £39.80 |
| Match 4 | 1,748 | £24.20 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 837 | £68.10 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 35 | £885 |
| Match 5 | 6 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 5 | £85,083 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £72,694,900 |