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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 13 October 2017

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 13
  3. 16
  4. 17
  5. 36
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 16% 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 1,200 of 3,062 under them

← 2017-10-11All recent draws2017-10-14 →

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 13 16 17 36 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 13 October 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 54% of every possible ticket.

  • sum37th
  • odd31th
  • low89th
  • widest gap88th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread43th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 154 of each

10163times
13154times
16158times
17156times
36

Prize breakdown · 2017-10-13

  • Lines in play≈ 1.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£630.2Kto 115k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.18

Where the money went

  • Match 317%£109.6K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34%£214.4K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball24%£149.3K
  • 4 other tiers25%£156.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.18 by chance

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137times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 86 of each

594times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,199 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 (13, 16, 17, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 April 2017 — its closest relative in 1,199 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 30% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 October 2017): 16 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

92

The numbers add up to 92 — the 36th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

36 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 0.7× 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 →
£500,000
  • Match 50≈ 2.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball25≈ 30 by chance£250
  • Match 4289≈ 395 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball885≈ 1.0k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,406≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 310,964≈ 13k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball42,879≈ 41k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball49,764≈ 50k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 10,964 winners, 16% fewer than the 13k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball49,764£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball42,879£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,406£10.00
    Match 310,964£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball885£20.00
    Match 4289£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball25£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000