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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£87,892,392
The crowdHeld 7% 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 493 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 492 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 26 January 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 55% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 49 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 492 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 (24, 38, 40) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 26 April 2013 — its closest relative in 492 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 91% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (22 January 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 9 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 165 — the 88th 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 →24 had not appeared for 61 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 13% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈35M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 959 winners, 20% fewer than the 1.2k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 2 | 1,406,007 | £3.30 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 717,630 | £6.30 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 221,496 | £7.60 |
| Match 3 | 93,067 | £10.30 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 39,834 | £14.90 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 47,410 | £12.00 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2,418 | £53.70 |
| Match 4 | 2,016 | £90.10 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 959 | £190 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 48 | £4,328 |
| Match 5 | 16 | £103,882 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 0 | £87,892,392 |