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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 18 July 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 12
  4. 22
  5. 27
  6. 4

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 33% 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 693 of 3,062 under them

← 2014-07-16All recent draws2014-07-19 →

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 8 12 22 27 + 429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 July 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

45oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 31% of every possible ticket.

  • sum15th
  • odd9th
  • low64th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread20th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 89 of each

692times
890times
1274times
2295times
27

Prize breakdown · 2014-07-18

  • Lines in play≈ 1.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.1Mto 95k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.14

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball45%£500.0K
  • Match 312%£132.4K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball15%£164.7K
  • 6 other tiers28%£314.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.14 by chance

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82times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 49 of each

448times

Every number was expected about that many times after 692 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, 8, 27) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 December 2013 — its closest relative in 692 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 July 2014): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 4 repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

75

The numbers add up to 75 — the 15th 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

12 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 2.3× 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 55≈ 1.8 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball44≈ 23 by chance£250
  • Match 4490≈ 301 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball952≈ 764 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,662≈ 8.2k by chance£10.00
  • Match 313,239≈ 9.9k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32,931≈ 32k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball37,912≈ 38k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 13,239 winners, 33% more than the 9.9k 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 Ball37,912£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32,931£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,662£10.00
    Match 313,239£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball952£20.00
    Match 4490£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball44£250
    Match 55£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000