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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 26 February 2016

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 12
  2. 14
  3. 17
  4. 20
  5. 25
  6. 1

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 33% 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 945 of 3,062 under them

← 2016-02-24All recent draws2016-02-27 →

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 feed12 14 17 20 25 + 129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 February 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

36oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 36 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 16% of every possible ticket.

  • sum31th
  • odd31th
  • low89th
  • widest gap2th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread3th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 121 of each

12105times
14106times
17128times
20133times
25

Prize breakdown · 2016-02-26

  • Lines in play≈ 985kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£516.8Kto 83k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.12

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£118.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28%£143.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£102.0K
  • 5 other tiers30%£153.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.12 by chance

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120times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 67 of each

167times

Every number was expected about that many times after 944 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 (12, 14, 20, 25) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 August 2011 — its closest relative in 944 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 24% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 February 2016): 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

88

The numbers add up to 88 — the 30th 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

20 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 1.8× 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 54≈ 1.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18≈ 21 by chance£250
  • Match 4364≈ 270 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball717≈ 685 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,804≈ 7.3k by chance£10.00
  • Match 311,847≈ 8.9k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,612≈ 28k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball33,989≈ 34k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈985k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 11,847 winners, 33% more than the 8.9k 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 Ball33,989£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,612£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,804£10.00
    Match 311,847£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball717£20.00
    Match 4364£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18£250
    Match 54£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000