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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£100,765,088
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 494 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 493 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 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 493 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 (5, 23, 32) and 1 of 2 stars with the draw of 14 October 2014 — its closest relative in 493 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 91% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (26 January 2016): 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 90 — the 11th 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 →23 had not appeared for 13 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈53M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 3,260 winners, 12% fewer than the 3.7k 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 | 2,294,832 | £2.90 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 1,219,495 | £5.40 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 339,210 | £7.20 |
| Match 3 | 159,592 | £8.70 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 67,867 | £12.80 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 86,627 | £9.60 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 4,692 | £40.40 |
| Match 4 | 3,260 | £81.40 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,906 | £139 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 97 | £3,129 |
| Match 5 | 5 | £121,386 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 6 | £303,465 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2 | £50,382,544 |