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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£17,883,898
The crowdHeld 31% 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 452 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 451 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 4 September 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 75% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 45 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 451 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, 45) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 1 September 2015 — its closest relative in 451 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (1 September 2015): 27, 45 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 8 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 139 — the 63th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →9 had not appeared for 12 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 1.2× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 6% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈23M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 — 1,335,364 winners, 31% more than the 1.0M 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 | 1,335,364 | £2.90 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 606,107 | £6.40 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 148,111 | £9.70 |
| Match 3 | 90,468 | £9.00 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 27,553 | £18.40 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 41,415 | £11.70 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,956 | £56.60 |
| Match 4 | 1,810 | £85.60 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 875 | £177 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 45 | £3,939 |
| Match 5 | 9 | £39,389 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 3 | £354,497 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £17,883,898 |