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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 9
  3. 11
  4. 13
  5. 18
  6. 10

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 57% 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 665 of 3,064 under them

← 2014-05-10All recent draws2014-05-16 →

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 feed4 9 11 13 18 + 1029 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 14 May 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

25oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 25 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.

  • sum3th
  • odd64th
  • low99th
  • widest gap2th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread4th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 85 of each

483times
983times
1174times
1387times
18

Prize breakdown · 2014-05-14

  • Lines in play≈ 1.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 139k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.19

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball36%£500.0K
  • Match 316%£223.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball17%£235.3K
  • 6 other tiers32%£440.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.19 by chance

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94times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 47 of each

1047times

Every number was expected about that many times after 664 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 (9, 11, 18) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 May 2012 — its closest relative in 664 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (10 May 2014): 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

55

The numbers add up to 55 — the 3th 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

4 had not appeared for 20 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 1.7× 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≈ 2.5 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball53≈ 33 by chance£250
  • Match 4773≈ 429 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,319≈ 1.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,181≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 322,304≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball47,057≈ 45k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball54,055≈ 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 — 22,304 winners, 57% more than the 14k 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 Ball54,055£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball47,057£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,181£10.00
    Match 322,304£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,319£20.00
    Match 4773£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball53£250
    Match 56£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000