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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£45,160,172
The crowdHeld 2% 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 79 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 78 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 7 February 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 38% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 8 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 78 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 (3, 15, 28) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 10 May 2011 — its closest relative in 78 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 31% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (3 February 2012): 28 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 96 — the 16th 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 →15 had not appeared for 26 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈28M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 1,227 winners, 27% more than the 966 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 | 1,244,340 | £2.40 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 635,654 | £4.70 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 177,697 | £6.20 |
| Match 3 | 96,074 | £6.50 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 36,127 | £10.80 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 48,775 | £7.70 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2,723 | £31.30 |
| Match 4 | 2,306 | £51.80 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,227 | £97.40 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 88 | £1,553 |
| Match 5 | 11 | £24,842 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 9 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £45,160,172 |