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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 5 December 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 13
  3. 14
  4. 15
  5. 36
  6. 5

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 753 of 3,064 under them

← 2014-12-03All recent draws2014-12-06 →

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 13 14 15 36 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 5 December 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

33oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 13% of every possible ticket.

  • sum23th
  • odd31th
  • low89th
  • widest gap93th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread76th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 96 of each

492times
1395times
1484times
1598times
36

Prize breakdown · 2014-12-05

  • Lines in play≈ 1.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£588.3Kto 108k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.17

Where the money went

  • Match 316%£94.9K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34%£199.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball25%£146.0K
  • 5 other tiers25%£147.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.17 by chance

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79times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 54 of each

564times

Every number was expected about that many times after 752 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 (4, 14, 15) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 9 August 2014 — its closest relative in 752 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 December 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

82

The numbers add up to 82 — the 22th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 13–14, 14–15. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

36 had not appeared for 26 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 53≈ 2.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19≈ 30 by chance£250
  • Match 4226≈ 387 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball721≈ 982 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,101≈ 10k by chance£10.00
  • Match 39,490≈ 13k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball39,907≈ 41k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball48,683≈ 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 plus Bonus Ball — 721 winners, 27% fewer than the 982 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 Ball48,683£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball39,907£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,101£10.00
    Match 39,490£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball721£20.00
    Match 4226£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000