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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 5
  3. 15
  4. 30
  5. 32
  6. 3

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 15% more than 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 602 of 3,064 under them

← 2013-12-14All recent draws2013-12-20 →

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 feed3 5 15 30 32 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

67oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 67 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 90% of every possible ticket.

  • sum27th
  • odd64th
  • low64th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread59th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 77 of each

369times
565times
1580times
3090times
32

Prize breakdown · 2013-12-18

  • Lines in play≈ 1.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.3Mto 136k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.20

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball38%£500.0K
  • Match 312%£163.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball19%£248.7K
  • 6 other tiers30%£399.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.20 by chance

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96times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 43 of each

349times

Every number was expected about that many times after 601 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 (3, 15, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 27 November 2013 — its closest relative in 601 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 December 2013): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

85

The numbers add up to 85 — the 26th 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

3 had not appeared for 9 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as 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≈ 2.5 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball42≈ 33 by chance£250
  • Match 4485≈ 432 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,437≈ 1.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,900≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 316,367≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball49,735≈ 45k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball54,393≈ 54k 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 — 1,437 winners, 31% more than the 1.1k 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.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball54,393£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball49,735£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,900£10.00
    Match 316,367£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,437£20.00
    Match 4485£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball42£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000