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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 26 August 2016

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 17
  3. 20
  4. 27
  5. 31
  6. 3

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 1,023 of 3,062 under them

← 2016-08-24All recent draws2016-08-27 →

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 feed5 17 20 27 31 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

70oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 70 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 95% of every possible ticket.

  • sum50th
  • odd89th
  • low64th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread43th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 131 of each

5122times
17134times
20144times
27131times
31

Prize breakdown · 2016-08-26

  • Lines in play≈ 1.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£603.1Kto 99k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.14

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£139.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29%£172.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£120.5K
  • 5 other tiers28%£170.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.14 by chance

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155times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 73 of each

382times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,022 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, 27, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 March 2016 — its closest relative in 1,022 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 August 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

100

The numbers add up to 100 — the 49th 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

17 had not appeared for 23 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 52≈ 1.9 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22≈ 25 by chance£250
  • Match 4424≈ 319 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball962≈ 810 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,312≈ 8.6k by chance£10.00
  • Match 313,952≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34,578≈ 33k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball40,153≈ 40k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 13,952 winners, 33% more than the 11k 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 Ball40,153£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34,578£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,312£10.00
    Match 313,952£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball962£20.00
    Match 4424£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000