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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 12
  3. 30
  4. 31
  5. 38
  6. 8

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 21% 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 1,139 of 3,062 under them

← 2017-05-20All recent draws2017-05-26 →

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 12 30 31 38 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 24 May 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

50oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 44% of every possible ticket.

  • sum74th
  • odd31th
  • low31th
  • widest gap84th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread81th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 146 of each

5141times
12128times
30170times
31169times
38

Prize breakdown · 2017-05-24

  • Lines in play≈ 1.9Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£812.5Kto 149k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.24

Where the money went

  • Match 317%£135.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£272.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball24%£197.7K
  • 5 other tiers25%£207.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.24 by chance

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136times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 81 of each

888times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,138 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, 12, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 January 2017 — its closest relative in 1,138 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 May 2017): 30 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

116

The numbers add up to 116 — the 74th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 30–31. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

38 had not appeared for 13 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 51≈ 3.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball26≈ 40 by chance£250
  • Match 4387≈ 523 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,148≈ 1.3k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,380≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 313,568≈ 17k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball54,433≈ 55k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball65,891≈ 66k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 387 winners, 26% fewer than the 523 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 Ball65,891£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball54,433£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,380£10.00
    Match 313,568£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,148£20.00
    Match 4387£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball26£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000