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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£24,189,680
The crowdHeld 8% more than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 2/11 · May 2011 – Sep 2016draw 72 of 562 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
EuroMillions was a 5/50 + 2/11 · May 2011 – Sep 2016 game then. Everything on this page reads the draw against those rules and the 71 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 13 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 33% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 7 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 71 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 2 of 5 numbers (27, 39) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 25 October 2011 — its closest relative in 71 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (10 January 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 114 — the 33th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →13 had not appeared for 43 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 9% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈47M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 88,522 winners, 22% more than the 72k 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 | 2,253,485 | £2.50 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 1,158,179 | £4.70 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 303,007 | £6.70 |
| Match 3 | 174,282 | £6.60 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 64,279 | £11.20 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 88,522 | £7.70 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 4,769 | £32.80 |
| Match 4 | 3,884 | £56.40 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,919 | £114 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 110 | £2,278 |
| Match 5 | 10 | £50,105 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 10 | £150,315 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £24,189,680 |