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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 4
  3. 5
  4. 13
  5. 18
  6. 13

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 38% 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 1,073 of 3,063 under them

← 2016-12-17All recent draws2016-12-23 →

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 feed2 4 5 13 18 + 1329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 December 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

26oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.

  • sum1th
  • odd31th
  • low99th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread7th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 137 of each

2148times
4138times
5128times
13137times
18

Prize breakdown · 2016-12-21

  • Lines in play≈ 1.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.3Mto 133k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.18

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball38%£500.0K
  • Match 314%£182.4K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball18%£240.9K
  • 6 other tiers30%£392.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.18 by chance

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143times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 77 of each

1374times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,072 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 (4, 5, 13, 18) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 29 April 2016 — its closest relative in 1,072 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 27% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 December 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

42

The numbers add up to 42 — the 1th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

2 had not appeared for 12 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 1.6× 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≈ 2.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball46≈ 31 by chance£250
  • Match 4518≈ 402 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,397≈ 1.0k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,983≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 318,244≈ 13k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball48,189≈ 42k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball50,594≈ 51k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 18,244 winners, 38% more than the 13k 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 Ball50,594£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball48,189£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,983£10.00
    Match 318,244£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,397£20.00
    Match 4518£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball46£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000