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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£26,917,650
The crowdHeld 26% 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 968 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 2 January 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 31% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 97 of each
Times drawn before — chance expected 161 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 967 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, 27, 44) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 23 December 2025 — its closest relative in 967 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (30 December 2025): 44 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 1, 10 repeated (32% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 167 — the 89th 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 →42 had not appeared for 10 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 11% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈20M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,161,243 winners, 26% more than the 922k 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 | 1,161,243 | £2.70 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 435,736 | £4.40 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 107,521 | £5.70 |
| Match 3 | 76,932 | £6.60 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 19,962 | £12.30 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 29,286 | £9.40 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,344 | £52.30 |
| Match 4 | 1,563 | £31.60 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 619 | £108 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 37 | £976 |
| Match 5 | 9 | £12,887 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 4 | £124,067 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £26,917,650 |