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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 18 April 2015

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. 14
  5. 21
  6. 1

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 46% 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 811 of 3,063 under them

← 2015-04-17All recent draws2015-04-22 →

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 feed11 12 13 14 21 + 129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 April 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

22oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 22 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 3% of every possible ticket.

  • sum12th
  • odd64th
  • low89th
  • widest gap8th
  • neighbours100th
  • spread1th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 104 of each

1194times
1286times
13102times
1494times
21

Prize breakdown · 2015-04-18

  • Lines in play≈ 2.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.2Mto 182k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.25

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£269.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28%£320.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball18%£211.9K
  • 5 other tiers31%£353.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.25 by chance

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110times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 58 of each

155times

Every number was expected about that many times after 810 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 (12, 14, 21) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 January 2015 — its closest relative in 810 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 April 2015): 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

71

The numbers add up to 71 — the 11th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 11–12, 12–13, 13–14. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

21 had not appeared for 22 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 3.1× 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 56≈ 3.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball70≈ 43 by chance£250
  • Match 41,016≈ 561 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,569≈ 1.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,248≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 326,951≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball64,109≈ 59k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball70,632≈ 71k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,016 winners, 81% more than the 561 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 Ball70,632£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball64,109£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,248£10.00
    Match 326,951£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,569£20.00
    Match 41,016£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball70£250
    Match 56£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000