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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 18 October 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 13
  2. 21
  3. 26
  4. 27
  5. 33
  6. 6

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 3% 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 733 of 3,063 under them

← 2014-10-17All recent draws2014-10-22 →

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 feed13 21 26 27 33 + 629 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

32oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 32 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 11% of every possible ticket.

  • sum79th
  • odd89th
  • low9th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread17th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 94 of each

1394times
21104times
2691times
2790times
33

Prize breakdown · 2014-10-18

  • Lines in play≈ 2.7Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.2Mto 218k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.33

Where the money went

  • Match 320%£248.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31%£389.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball22%£275.8K
  • 5 other tiers26%£328.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.33 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 52 of each

647times

Every number was expected about that many times after 732 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 (21, 26, 27) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 17 September 2014 — its closest relative in 732 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 October 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

120

The numbers add up to 120 — the 79th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 26–27. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

26 had not appeared for 13 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 51≈ 4.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball48≈ 56 by chance£250
  • Match 4698≈ 730 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,792≈ 1.9k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,550≈ 20k by chance£10.00
  • Match 324,867≈ 24k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball77,907≈ 77k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball91,945≈ 92k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 698 winners, 4% fewer than the 730 an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball91,945£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball77,907£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,550£10.00
    Match 324,867£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,792£20.00
    Match 4698£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball48£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000