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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€4,389,124
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
Rules6/47 + 1/47 · since Oct 2015draw 230 of 1,151 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 December 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 47 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 36% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 29 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 229 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 4 of 6 numbers (1, 21, 38, 40) with the draw of 10 October 2015 — its closest relative in 229 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 23% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (13 December 2017): 38, 40 carried over. Chance says 58% of draws repeat at least one number.
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 170 — the 79th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 144. Side-by-side numbers: 37–38. 51% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →37 had not appeared for 33 draws. A number waits about 8 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 58% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈978k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus Bonus Ball — 15,086 winners, 12% more than the 14k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 15,086 | €3.00 |
| Match 3 | 18,004 | €10.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 1,489 | €28.00 |
| Match 4 | 1,031 | €60.00 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 53 | €181 |
| Match 5 | 18 | €2,118 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | €502,111 |
| Match 6 | 0 | €4,389,124 |