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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 16
  3. 17
  4. 23
  5. 26
  6. 12

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 28% 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 659 of 3,063 under them

← 2014-04-26All recent draws2014-05-02 →

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 feed7 16 17 23 26 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 30 April 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 56% of every possible ticket.

  • sum33th
  • odd64th
  • low64th
  • widest gap18th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread14th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 84 of each

790times
1680times
1789times
2385times
26

Prize breakdown · 2014-04-30

  • Lines in play≈ 1.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£840.6Kto 139k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.20

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£190.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29%£241.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£170.7K
  • 5 other tiers28%£237.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.20 by chance

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84times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 47 of each

1255times

Every number was expected about that many times after 658 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, 17, 23) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 December 2013 — its closest relative in 658 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (26 April 2014): 16, 26 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

89

The numbers add up to 89 — the 32th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

23 had not appeared for 15 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 2.0× 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 53≈ 2.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball47≈ 35 by chance£250
  • Match 4544≈ 452 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,280≈ 1.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,097≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 319,047≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball48,335≈ 47k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball56,914≈ 57k 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 — 19,047 winners, 28% more than the 15k 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 Ball56,914£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball48,335£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,097£10.00
    Match 319,047£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,280£20.00
    Match 4544£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball47£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000