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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£11,842,500
The crowdHeld 44% 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 502 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 501 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 February 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 54% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 50 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 501 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 (13, 15, 33) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 30 September 2014 — its closest relative in 501 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 91% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (23 February 2016): nothing carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 11 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 116 — the 35th 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 →33 had not appeared for 14 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 11% of the jackpot.
Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.
The Unpopular Numbers Edge →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈24M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 3,044 winners, 79% more than the 1.7k 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 | 1,536,951 | £2.50 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 682,446 | £5.60 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 156,133 | £9.00 |
| Match 3 | 115,878 | £6.90 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 31,898 | £15.60 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 51,988 | £9.10 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 2,452 | £44.30 |
| Match 4 | 3,044 | £49.90 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 1,333 | £114 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 46 | £3,779 |
| Match 5 | 18 | £19,313 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 4 | £260,731 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £11,842,500 |