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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£22,450,618
The crowdHeld about as often as 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 456 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 455 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 18 September 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 29% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 46 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 455 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 (33, 34, 39) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 27 June 2014 — its closest relative in 455 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 89% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (15 September 2015): nothing 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 142 — the 67th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 33–34. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →7 had not appeared for 9 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 10% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈27M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,412 winners, 26% fewer than the 1.9k 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 | 1,185,018 | £3.40 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 710,040 | £5.50 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 174,925 | £8.30 |
| Match 3 | 76,655 | £10.80 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 32,544 | £15.90 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 44,608 | £11.10 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2,165 | £52.00 |
| Match 4 | 1,412 | £112 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 839 | £188 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 37 | £4,870 |
| Match 5 | 6 | £60,062 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 2 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £22,450,618 |