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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£69,603,022
The crowdHeld 11% 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 1,036 of 1,049 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. A later report from Backup 1 agrees but has not been cross-checked yet. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 August 2026 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 94% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 104 of each
Times drawn before — chance expected 173 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,035 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 (14, 42, 45) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 26 August 2025 — its closest relative in 1,035 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 August 2026): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 9 repeated (32% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 136 — the 60th 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 13 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 1.0× 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 ≈27M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 + 1 Star — 1,186 winners, 38% more than the 857 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 5 + 2 Stars | 0 | £69,603,022 |
| Match 5 + 1 Star | 6 | £109,519 |
| Match 5 | 18 | £8,532 |
| Match 4 + 2 Stars | 76 | £629 |
| Match 4 + 1 Star | 1,186 | £74.30 |
| Match 3 + 2 Stars | 2,126 | £43.82 |
| Match 4 | 2,554 | £25.63 |
| Match 2 + 2 Stars | 27,496 | £11.90 |
| Match 3 + 1 Star | 40,116 | £9.10 |
| Match 3 | 85,879 | £7.92 |
| Match 1 + 2 Stars | 141,929 | £5.80 |
| Match 2 + 1 Star | 490,996 | £5.28 |
| Match 2 | 1,079,861 | £3.87 |
| Totals | 1,872,243 | — |