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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 15 August 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 10
  3. 15
  4. 28
  5. 39
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 22% 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 705 of 3,063 under them

← 2014-08-13All recent draws2014-08-16 →

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 feed8 10 15 28 39 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 15 August 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

75oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 75 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 99% of every possible ticket.

  • sum50th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread70th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 90 of each

893times
10101times
1590times
2898times
39

Prize breakdown · 2014-08-15

  • Lines in play≈ 1.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.2Mto 119k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.19

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball43%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball19%£218.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball13%£154.8K
  • 6 other tiers25%£297.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.19 by chance

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88times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 50 of each

559times

Every number was expected about that many times after 704 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 4 of 5 numbers (8, 15, 28, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 July 2013 — its closest relative in 704 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 19% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 August 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

100

The numbers add up to 100 — the 49th 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

28 had not appeared for 19 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 1.1× 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 53≈ 2.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball31≈ 32 by chance£250
  • Match 4294≈ 410 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,040≈ 1.0k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,932≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 310,554≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball43,759≈ 43k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball51,600≈ 52k 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 — 10,554 winners, 22% fewer than the 14k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball51,600£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball43,759£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,932£10.00
    Match 310,554£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,040£20.00
    Match 4294£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball31£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000