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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£37,709,048
The crowdHeld 39% less than an average linefrom the prize table, not from a model of how people pick
Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at
Rules5/50 + 2/11 · May 2011 – Sep 2016draw 136 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 135 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 24 August 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 49 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 42% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 14 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 135 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 (12, 19, 37) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 29 July 2011 — its closest relative in 135 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 48% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (21 August 2012): 5 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 3 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 79 — the 6th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 5–6. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →6 had not appeared for 36 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 1.4× 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 ≈68M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,833,874 winners, 39% fewer than the 3.0M 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 | 1,833,874 | £2.80 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 1,054,228 | £4.70 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 437,780 | £4.20 |
| Match 3 | 144,013 | £7.30 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 94,104 | £6.90 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 82,898 | £7.50 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 7,798 | £18.30 |
| Match 4 | 3,418 | £58.50 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 2,035 | £98.30 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 184 | £1,243 |
| Match 5 | 11 | £41,589 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 6 | £228,739 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £37,709,048 |