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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£36,219,854
The crowdHeld 53% 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 965 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 23 December 2025 — 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 96 of each
Times drawn before — chance expected 161 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 964 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 (8, 29, 44) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 17 January 2020 — its closest relative in 964 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (19 December 2025): 44 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 11 repeated (32% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 134 — the 57th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →26 had not appeared for 11 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 1.3× 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 ≈15M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 75,938 winners, 55% more than the 49k 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 | 1,073,472 | £2.30 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 382,289 | £4.10 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 81,923 | £6.10 |
| Match 3 | 75,938 | £5.50 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 15,398 | £13.10 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 27,189 | £8.20 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,046 | £54.80 |
| Match 4 | 1,459 | £27.60 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 614 | £88.40 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 22 | £1,340 |
| Match 5 | 8 | £11,833 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 6 | £67,507 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £36,219,854 |