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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 22 August 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 10
  3. 14
  4. 15
  5. 37
  6. 8

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 26% 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 708 of 3,062 under them

← 2014-08-20All recent draws2014-08-23 →

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 feed3 10 14 15 37 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 August 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

37oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 37 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 17% of every possible ticket.

  • sum19th
  • odd64th
  • low89th
  • widest gap95th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread86th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 91 of each

382times
10102times
1480times
1591times
37

Prize breakdown · 2014-08-22

  • Lines in play≈ 1.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£576.8Kto 108k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.17

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16%£94.9K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34%£195.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball25%£145.9K
  • 4 other tiers24%£140.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.17 by chance

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68times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 51 of each

854times

Every number was expected about that many times after 707 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 (3, 10, 14, 15) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 October 2011 — its closest relative in 707 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 19% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 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

79

The numbers add up to 79 — the 19th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

14 had not appeared for 5 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 50≈ 2.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20≈ 30 by chance£250
  • Match 4243≈ 386 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball835≈ 981 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,493≈ 10k by chance£10.00
  • Match 39,419≈ 13k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball39,163≈ 41k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball48,634≈ 49k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,419 winners, 26% fewer than the 13k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 Ball48,634£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball39,163£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,493£10.00
    Match 39,419£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball835£20.00
    Match 4243£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000