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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 26 March 2016

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 13
  3. 16
  4. 18
  5. 32
  6. 7

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 20% 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 958 of 3,062 under them

← 2016-03-25All recent draws2016-03-30 →

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 feed3 13 16 18 32 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 69% of every possible ticket.

  • sum23th
  • odd31th
  • low89th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread59th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each

3123times
13119times
16119times
18130times
32

Prize breakdown · 2016-03-26

  • Lines in play≈ 3.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.6Mto 286k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.44

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17%£280.4K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32%£525.4K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball23%£370.7K
  • 5 other tiers27%£442.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.44 by chance

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148times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 68 of each

760times

Every number was expected about that many times after 957 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 (3, 16, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 June 2015 — its closest relative in 957 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (25 March 2016): 18 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

82

The numbers add up to 82 — the 22th 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

13 had not appeared for 8 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 55≈ 5.8 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball85≈ 75 by chance£250
  • Match 4847≈ 981 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,671≈ 2.5k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball28,035≈ 27k by chance£10.00
  • Match 325,823≈ 32k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball105,074≈ 103k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball123,574≈ 124k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈3.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 25,823 winners, 20% fewer than the 32k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball123,574£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball105,074£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball28,035£10.00
    Match 325,823£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,671£20.00
    Match 4847£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball85£250
    Match 55£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000