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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£23,871,796
The crowdHeld 5% 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 485 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 484 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 29 December 2015 — 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 48 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 484 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 (20, 36) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 27 October 2015 — its closest relative in 484 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (25 December 2015): 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 124 — the 45th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 31–32. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →31 had not appeared for 35 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 8% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈22M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 560 winners, 26% fewer than the 762 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 | 910,781 | £3.40 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 493,102 | £6.20 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 140,078 | £8.10 |
| Match 3 | 57,321 | £11.30 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 24,265 | £16.70 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 30,546 | £12.60 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,504 | £58.60 |
| Match 4 | 1,129 | £109 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 560 | £220 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 31 | £4,550 |
| Match 5 | 10 | £28,207 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 4 | £211,553 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £23,871,796 |