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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£57,525,792
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 523 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 522 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 10 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 37 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 17% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 52 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 522 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 (26, 27, 49) and 0 of 2 stars with the draw of 26 December 2014 — its closest relative in 522 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 92% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (6 May 2016): 40 carried over. Chance says 42% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 10 repeated (35% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 144 — the 69th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 128. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27. 35% of draws have at least one such pair.
Sum Distribution →2 had not appeared for 11 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 ≈24M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 plus Bonus Ball — 637 winners, 22% fewer than the 820 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 | 1,042,147 | £3.10 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 512,239 | £6.30 |
| Match 1 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 150,844 | £7.90 |
| Match 3 | 66,142 | £10.20 |
| Match 2 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 27,613 | £15.30 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 32,530 | £12.40 |
| Match 3 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1,765 | £52.00 |
| Match 4 | 1,368 | £94.00 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 637 | £202 |
| Match 4 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 41 | £3,585 |
| Match 5 | 6 | £48,999 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 1 | £0.00 |
| Match 5 plus 2 Bonus Balls | 1 | £57,525,792 |