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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 28 May 2016

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 25
  3. 30
  4. 31
  5. 36
  6. 3

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 19% 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 985 of 3,062 under them

← 2016-05-27All recent draws2016-06-01 →

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 feed1 25 30 31 36 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 May 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

33oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 12% of every possible ticket.

  • sum83th
  • odd64th
  • low9th
  • widest gap97th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread91th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 126 of each

1118times
25125times
30150times
31151times
36

Prize breakdown · 2016-05-28

  • Lines in play≈ 2.7Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.6Mto 207k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.34

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball31%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball22%£364.6K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball17%£283.4K
  • 6 other tiers30%£482.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.34 by chance

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111times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 70 of each

376times

Every number was expected about that many times after 984 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 (1, 25, 30, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 September 2010 — its closest relative in 984 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 25% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 May 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

123

The numbers add up to 123 — the 82th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 30–31. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

36 had not appeared for 17 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 54≈ 4.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball37≈ 58 by chance£250
  • Match 4533≈ 750 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,394≈ 1.9k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,170≈ 20k by chance£10.00
  • Match 320,011≈ 25k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball72,928≈ 79k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball94,450≈ 94k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 533 winners, 29% fewer than the 750 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 Ball94,450£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball72,928£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,170£10.00
    Match 320,011£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,394£20.00
    Match 4533£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball37£250
    Match 54£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000