Fourteen years · 828 draws · one honest question

The numbers behind Europe’s €120 million obsession

Eurojackpot has been drawing balls in Helsinki twice a week since 2012. This site puts every single draw under a statistical microscope — the patterns, the myths, and the one thing you can actually predict.

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The most recent draw in this dataset — February 25, 2025

828

Draws analysed

5,796

Balls drawn

Years covered

1 in 139,838,160

Jackpot odds

The game, in one paragraph

Pick 5 numbers from 50, add 2 Euro numbers from 12, and match all seven to win a jackpot that starts at €10 million and climbs to a €120 million cap. Draws happen every Tuesday and Friday in Helsinki, across 18 countries. Since launch the game has quietly changed its own rules twice — a detail that, as you’ll see, quietly breaks most casual analyses of it.

1 in 139,838,160Your odds of hitting the jackpot with a single line. You are roughly 100× more likely to be struck by lightning this year.

Inside the data

Five chapters, each built from the raw draw history with reproducible R code — press any “Code” button on the way to see exactly how a figure was made.

Chapter 1Data OverviewThe shape of 828 draws: what the dataset holds, how often each number shows up, and which pairs travel together.Read chapter →

Chapter 2Frequency Analysis“Hot” and “cold” numbers under a microscope — and how big the gap between luckiest and unluckiest ball should be by pure chance.Read chapter →

Chapter 3Time SeriesDraw sums, spreads and seasons: does the machine drift over fourteen years, or is every wobble just noise wearing a trend costume?Read chapter →

Chapter 4Number PatternsThe gaps between the five balls in a draw — how tightly they cluster, how often neighbours appear, and what a “typical” ticket looks like.Read chapter →

Chapter 5Predicting the Next Pot?Every popular prediction strategy, formally backtested against history — plus the one quantity in this game you genuinely can forecast.Read chapter →

How we work

Descriptive statistics, formal hypothesis tests, and walk-forward backtests — visualised, and honest about uncertainty. Where a popular belief fails a test, we say so; where the data genuinely contains structure (it happens!), we show where it comes from.

Play-it-straight note: lottery draws are independent random events. Past results cannot predict future outcomes, and this site will show you precisely why — with tests, not slogans. Everything here is for education and curiosity. If you play, treat the ticket as entertainment, never as an investment.