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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 2 October 2015

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 17
  3. 26
  4. 29
  5. 35
  6. 2

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 13% 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 882 of 3,063 under them

← 2015-09-30All recent draws2015-10-03 →

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 feed5 17 26 29 35 + 229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 2 October 2015 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

60oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 60 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 73% of every possible ticket.

  • sum69th
  • odd89th
  • low31th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread65th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 113 of each

5101times
17118times
26113times
29116times
35

Prize breakdown · 2015-10-02

  • Lines in play≈ 1.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£996.9Kto 86k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.13

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball50%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball15%£149.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball11%£110.3K
  • 6 other tiers24%£236.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.13 by chance

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91times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 63 of each

253times

Every number was expected about that many times after 881 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 (5, 26, 35) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 April 2015 — its closest relative in 881 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 September 2015): 17 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

112

The numbers add up to 112 — the 68th 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

5 had not appeared for 14 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 0.9× 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 51≈ 1.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball11≈ 22 by chance£250
  • Match 4314≈ 292 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball669≈ 742 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,501≈ 7.9k by chance£10.00
  • Match 310,932≈ 9.6k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29,949≈ 31k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball36,780≈ 37k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 10,932 winners, 13% more than the 9.6k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball36,780£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29,949£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,501£10.00
    Match 310,932£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball669£20.00
    Match 4314£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball11£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000