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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
Thunderball · draw
ResultThunderball
Jackpot£500,000
The crowdHeld 22% 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 1,071 of 3,063 under them
SourcesOnly Primary (commercial feed) reported this draw, so there is nothing to check it against. Settled 29 Aug 2026, 09:38 UTC.
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What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.
Scored 23 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 4% of every possible ticket.
Times drawn before — chance expected 137 of each
Every number was expected about that many times after 1,070 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 →Shares 3 of 5 numbers (21, 35, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 31 October 2015 — its closest relative in 1,070 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.
From the draw just before (14 December 2016): 1 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).
Carry-over / Déjà Vu →The numbers add up to 121 — the 80th 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 →39 had not appeared for 14 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 →A line like this is played about 0.6× 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 →Where the money went
The rings take the ≈1.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,777 winners, 22% fewer than the 11k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.
| Match | Winners | Prize each |
|---|---|---|
| Match 0 plus Bonus Ball | 42,741 | £3.00 |
| Match 1 plus Bonus Ball | 32,142 | £5.00 |
| Match 2 plus Bonus Ball | 7,655 | £10.00 |
| Match 3 | 8,777 | £10.00 |
| Match 3 plus Bonus Ball | 679 | £20.00 |
| Match 4 | 296 | £100 |
| Match 4 plus Bonus Ball | 22 | £250 |
| Match 5 | 1 | £5,000 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus Ball | 0 | £500,000 |