Which EuroMillions numbers come up most?
Every ball drawn in the last 53 EuroMillions draws — Tuesday 17 March 2026 to Friday 18 September 2026 — counted, ranked and mapped.
53 draws · Mar 2026 – Sept 2026 · 265 balls
These numbers describe the past. They cannot predict the next draw.
This describes the past, not the future. Every number has the same chance in every draw. Nothing here changes your odds.
Balls have no memory. In every draw each number has exactly the same chance — 1 in 50 of being the first ball out, whether it appeared last week or has not shown up for a year. Nothing on this page changes your odds. It is here because the patterns are interesting, and because knowing which combinations are popular can lower your chance of sharing a jackpot.
Draws analysed
53
265 balls drawn
Expected per number
5.3
If every ball were perfectly even
Drawn most
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until the archive is deep enough
Drawn least
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Every number, by how often it came up
Colour shows the gap from the expected 5.3 appearances.
Below expected · Expected · Above
−3.3 +3.3
below · expected 5.3 · above
Withheld. The archive is too young for a chart of 50 numbers to say more than chance does.
A test for a favoured ball needs more draws than this window holds, so we do not report one. Nothing here says a number is due. How we test for bias →
Drawn most often
Appearances in 53 draws
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Drawn least often
Appearances in 53 draws
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Longest droughts on record
The longest run of draws each number has sat out. It never made them "due".
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Turn up together most
Pairs appearing in the same draw
Withheld — a pair count needs more draws than a single number does, and no pair has yet turned up together often enough to mean anything.
The one statistic that can actually help you
Roughly a third of players choose numbers from 1–31 because they are using birthdays, and thousands of tickets carry 1-2-3-4-5-6 every week. Picking outside those patterns will not make you more likely to win — but if you do win, you are less likely to be sharing the jackpot with a hundred other people.
The archive is too young to support these figures yet.
We hold 53 draws under this format, about 5.3 appearances per number. That is too few for a frequency table, a hot and cold list, or a test of whether the spread is even, to say more than chance does — so we show none of them. It needs about 200 draws, and the archive grows with every draw.
We could show you a table today. It would rank 50 numbers by counts that differ almost entirely by chance, and the top of it would look meaningful. Most sites do exactly that. We would rather tell you it is too early.
- Draws held
- 53
- Draws needed
- 200
- Archive begins
- Tuesday 17 March 2026
How often a line looks a certain way
Frequency is one question about a draw. Shape is another, and it is the one people act on — the numbers they cross out because a line "looks wrong". These come from the matrix rather than from counting, so they are exact.
| Shape | Chance | In our archive |
|---|---|---|
| contains two consecutive numbers | about 35% | too few draws to be worth comparing |
| every number odd | 1 in 40 | too few draws to be worth comparing |
| every number even | 1 in 40 | too few draws to be worth comparing |
| contains three in a row | 1 in 43 | too few draws to be worth comparing |
None of it makes a line more or less likely to be drawn. Every set of 5 numbers has exactly the same chance — what the record shows about the shapes people avoid works through the counting.
What none of this can tell you
Which numbers will come up next. A draw has no memory: the balls do not know what happened last week, and the chance of any particular line is fixed by the matrix at 1 in 139,838,160 whatever has gone before.
Counting past draws is genuinely interesting and it is a record of what happened. It is not a forecast, and anyone selling you one is selling you a coin they have already flipped.
Last updated Sunday 20 September 2026, after the draw on Friday 18 September 2026.
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