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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 18 December 2015

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 5
  3. 6
  4. 16
  5. 25
  6. 10

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 25% 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 915 of 3,063 under them

← 2015-12-16All recent draws2015-12-19 →

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 5 6 16 25 + 1029 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 December 2015 — 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.

  • sum3th
  • odd31th
  • low89th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread20th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 117 of each

4114times
5110times
6128times
16112times
25

Prize breakdown · 2015-12-18

  • Lines in play≈ 1.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£550.3Kto 92k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.13

Where the money went

  • Match 322%£122.2K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£162.4K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£111.7K
  • 5 other tiers28%£154.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.13 by chance

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115times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 65 of each

1065times

Every number was expected about that many times after 914 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 4 of 5 numbers (4, 5, 16, 25) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 October 2012 — its closest relative in 914 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 24% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 December 2015): 4 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

56

The numbers add up to 56 — the 3th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5, 5–6. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

16 had not appeared for 9 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 2.1× 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 51≈ 1.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball32≈ 23 by chance£250
  • Match 4358≈ 296 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball864≈ 750 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,794≈ 8.0k by chance£10.00
  • Match 312,224≈ 9.8k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32,475≈ 31k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball37,221≈ 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 — 12,224 winners, 25% more than the 9.8k 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 Ball37,221£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32,475£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,794£10.00
    Match 312,224£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball864£20.00
    Match 4358£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball32£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000