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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 28 July 2017

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 6
  3. 12
  4. 25
  5. 37
  6. 7

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 28% 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 1,167 of 3,062 under them

← 2017-07-26All recent draws2017-07-29 →

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 feed4 6 12 25 37 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 July 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

63oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 63 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 81% of every possible ticket.

  • sum26th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread81th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 149 of each

4152times
6164times
12134times
25144times
37

Prize breakdown · 2017-07-28

  • Lines in play≈ 1.7Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£689.4Kto 126k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.21

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16%£112.2K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£228.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball25%£171.4K
  • 5 other tiers26%£177.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.21 by chance

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126times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 83 of each

767times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,166 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, 6, 12, 25) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 August 2014 — its closest relative in 1,166 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 29% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (26 July 2017): 6, 12 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

84

The numbers add up to 84 — the 25th 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 →

The longest wait in this draw

4 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 53≈ 2.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19≈ 35 by chance£250
  • Match 4311≈ 454 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball953≈ 1.2k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,221≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 310,724≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball45,740≈ 48k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball57,123≈ 57k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 10,724 winners, 28% fewer than the 15k 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 Ball57,123£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball45,740£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,221£10.00
    Match 310,724£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball953£20.00
    Match 4311£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000