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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 18
  2. 20
  3. 22
  4. 28
  5. 36
  6. 7

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 28% 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 875 of 3,064 under them

← 2015-09-12All recent draws2015-09-18 →

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 feed18 20 22 28 36 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 September 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

34oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 34 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 13% of every possible ticket.

  • sum84th
  • odd1th
  • low31th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread11th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 112 of each

18119times
20124times
22125times
28118times
36

Prize breakdown · 2015-09-16

  • Lines in play≈ 2.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£988.5Kto 176k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.29

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16%£156.8K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32%£315.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball24%£239.3K
  • 5 other tiers28%£277.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.29 by chance

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98times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 62 of each

756times

Every number was expected about that many times after 874 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 (20, 28, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 March 2015 — its closest relative in 874 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (12 September 2015): 36 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 7 repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

124

The numbers add up to 124 — the 83th 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

18 had not appeared for 33 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than 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 57≈ 3.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball47≈ 49 by chance£250
  • Match 4512≈ 634 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,440≈ 1.6k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,677≈ 17k by chance£10.00
  • Match 315,041≈ 21k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball63,061≈ 66k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball79,771≈ 80k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 15,041 winners, 28% fewer than the 21k 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 Ball79,771£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball63,061£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,677£10.00
    Match 315,041£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,440£20.00
    Match 4512£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball47£250
    Match 57£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000