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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£37,827,316
The crowdHeld 16% 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 140 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 139 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 September 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 69 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 93% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 14 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 139 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 (35, 42) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 3 August 2012 — its closest relative in 139 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (4 September 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 135 — the 59th 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 →13 had not appeared for 27 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 12% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈46M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 2,356 winners, 26% fewer than the 3.2k 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 | 1,704,344 | £2.90 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 850,151 | £5.80 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 294,231 | £6.20 |
| Match 3 | 114,684 | £9.00 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 56,790 | £11.40 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 57,081 | £10.80 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 3,938 | £35.70 |
| Match 4 | 2,356 | £83.70 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,258 | £157 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 74 | £3,046 |
| Match 5 | 6 | £75,140 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 7 | £193,218 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £37,827,316 |