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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 16
  2. 18
  3. 25
  4. 30
  5. 38
  6. 14

Jackpot£500,000

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

Rules5/39 + 1/14 · since Jan 2010draw 563 of 3,064 under them

← 2013-09-14All recent draws2013-09-20 →

Where this result came from

SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.

  • Primarycommercial feed16 18 25 30 38 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 September 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

39oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 21% of every possible ticket.

  • sum87th
  • odd9th
  • low31th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread24th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 72 of each

1662times
1878times
2571times
3083times
38

Prize breakdown · 2013-09-18

  • Lines in play≈ 1.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£703.7Kto 124k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.20

Where the money went

  • Match 320%£141.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31%£215.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball23%£164.6K
  • 5 other tiers26%£182.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.20 by chance

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67times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 40 of each

1434times

Every number was expected about that many times after 562 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 →

Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (16, 18, 30) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 September 2012 — its closest relative in 562 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 September 2013): 18, 30 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

127

The numbers add up to 127 — the 86th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. No two numbers side by side. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

16 had not appeared for 21 draws. A number waits about 8 on average, and a wait this long was not a signal — the machine has no memory of it.

Gap & “Overdue” Tracker →

How many people held it

A line like this is played about 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 52≈ 2.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball28≈ 34 by chance£250
  • Match 4397≈ 436 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball905≈ 1.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,752≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 314,171≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball43,010≈ 46k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball54,881≈ 55k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 905 winners, 18% fewer than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball54,881£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball43,010£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,752£10.00
    Match 314,171£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball905£20.00
    Match 4397£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball28£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000