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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 7 October 2016

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 15
  4. 19
  5. 26
  6. 8

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 3% 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 1,041 of 3,062 under them

← 2016-10-05All recent draws2016-10-08 →

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 feed8 9 15 19 26 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 7 October 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.

  • sum17th
  • odd64th
  • low89th
  • widest gap8th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread11th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 133 of each

8131times
9125times
15127times
19140times
26

Prize breakdown · 2016-10-07

  • Lines in play≈ 1.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£691.0Kto 115k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.16

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18%£124.9K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31%£214.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£137.1K
  • 5 other tiers31%£214.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.16 by chance

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135times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 74 of each

879times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,040 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 (9, 19, 26) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 September 2016 — its closest relative in 1,040 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 October 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

77

The numbers add up to 77 — the 17th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 8–9. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

15 had not appeared for 22 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 2.3× 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 53≈ 2.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball48≈ 28 by chance£250
  • Match 4395≈ 363 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,213≈ 921 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,485≈ 9.8k by chance£10.00
  • Match 312,383≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball42,892≈ 38k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball45,692≈ 46k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,213 winners, 32% more than the 921 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 Ball45,692£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball42,892£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,485£10.00
    Match 312,383£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,213£20.00
    Match 4395£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball48£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000