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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 18
  2. 21
  3. 23
  4. 25
  5. 26
  6. 8

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 644 of 3,062 under them

← 2014-03-22All recent draws2014-03-28 →

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 feed18 21 23 25 26 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 March 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

33oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 13% of every possible ticket.

  • sum70th
  • odd64th
  • low9th
  • widest gap0th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread0th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 82 of each

1891times
2193times
2384times
2580times
26

Prize breakdown · 2014-03-26

  • Lines in play≈ 1.9Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£950.4Kto 162k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.24

Where the money went

  • Match 318%£171.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32%£300.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%£198.8K
  • 5 other tiers29%£279.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.24 by chance

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81times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 46 of each

852times

Every number was expected about that many times after 643 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 (18, 21, 23) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 8 January 2014 — its closest relative in 643 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 March 2014): 18 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

113

The numbers add up to 113 — the 70th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 25–26. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

21 had not appeared for 23 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 1.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 56≈ 3.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43≈ 40 by chance£250
  • Match 4478≈ 526 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,483≈ 1.3k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,135≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 317,146≈ 17k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball60,108≈ 55k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball66,283≈ 66k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus Bonus Ball — 16,135 winners, 13% more than the 14k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball66,283£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball60,108£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,135£10.00
    Match 317,146£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,483£20.00
    Match 4478£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43£250
    Match 56£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000