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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.
Lotto · draw
ResultLotto
Jackpot€3,081,733
The crowdHeld about as often as an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules6/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2015draw 281 of 601 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
Lotto was a 6/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2015 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 280 draws before it — not against today’s pool.
This draw, read by every tool
What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 September 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 79 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 98% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 37 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 280 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 6 numbers (12, 23, 28) with the draw of 18 January 2012 — its closest relative in 280 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (5 September 2012): 12, 23 carried over. Chance says 60% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 136 — the 47th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 138. Side-by-side numbers: 23–24. 53% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →8 had not appeared for 37 draws. A number waits about 7 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 20% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.8M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus Bonus Ball — 0 winners, 100% fewer than the 28k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | €3.00 |
| Match 3 | 37,633 | €5.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 3,042 | €24.00 |
| Match 4 | 2,430 | €46.00 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 116 | €157 |
| Match 5 | 51 | €1,420 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 3 | €25,000 |
| Match 6 | 0 | €3,081,733 |