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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 20 December 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 14
  3. 20
  4. 21
  5. 39
  6. 7

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 33% less 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 603 of 3,064 under them

← 2013-12-18All recent draws2013-12-21 →

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 feed6 14 20 21 39 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 December 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

59oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 71% of every possible ticket.

  • sum50th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap84th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread81th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 77 of each

682times
1465times
2091times
2189times
39

Prize breakdown · 2013-12-20

  • Lines in play≈ 1.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£605.1Kto 112k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.18

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17%£102.4K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34%£203.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball25%£153.9K
  • 5 other tiers24%£145.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.18 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

73times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 43 of each

732times

Every number was expected about that many times after 602 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 (6, 14, 20) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 April 2013 — its closest relative in 602 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 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

100

The numbers add up to 100 — the 49th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

20 had not appeared for 27 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 0.9× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 51≈ 2.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball24≈ 31 by chance£250
  • Match 4264≈ 407 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball875≈ 1.0k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,242≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 39,015≈ 13k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball40,743≈ 43k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball51,307≈ 51k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,015 winners, 33% fewer than the 13k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 Ball51,307£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball40,743£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,242£10.00
    Match 39,015£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball875£20.00
    Match 4264£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball24£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000