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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 17 February 2017

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 18
  3. 20
  4. 21
  5. 27
  6. 9

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 18% 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 1,098 of 3,063 under them

← 2017-02-15All recent draws2017-02-18 →

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 feed10 18 20 21 27 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 February 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 52% of every possible ticket.

  • sum44th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread9th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 141 of each

10151times
18151times
20151times
21155times
27

Prize breakdown · 2017-02-17

  • Lines in play≈ 1.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£585.5Kto 100k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.15

Where the money went

  • Match 322%£126.4K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£177.4K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%£122.6K
  • 4 other tiers27%£159.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.15 by chance

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141times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 78 of each

953times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,097 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 (18, 20, 21, 27) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 September 2014 — its closest relative in 1,097 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 28% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 February 2017): 18 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

96

The numbers add up to 96 — the 43th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

21 had not appeared for 5 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 1.9× 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 50≈ 1.9 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball26≈ 25 by chance£250
  • Match 4371≈ 325 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball908≈ 824 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,727≈ 8.8k by chance£10.00
  • Match 312,643≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35,476≈ 34k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball40,879≈ 41k 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 — 12,643 winners, 18% more than the 11k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball40,879£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35,476£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,727£10.00
    Match 312,643£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball908£20.00
    Match 4371£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball26£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000