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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 25
  3. 29
  4. 34
  5. 36
  6. 11

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 27% 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 1,202 of 3,062 under them

← 2017-10-14All recent draws2017-10-20 →

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 25 29 34 36 + 1129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 October 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

51oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 51 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 47% of every possible ticket.

  • sum92th
  • odd31th
  • low9th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread43th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 154 of each

10164times
25148times
29158times
34145times
36

Prize breakdown · 2017-10-18

  • Lines in play≈ 1.9Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£773.7Kto 143k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.24

Where the money went

  • Match 316%£126.2K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£254.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball25%£197.1K
  • 5 other tiers25%£196.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.24 by chance

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138times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 86 of each

1199times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,201 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 (10, 34, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 April 2016 — its closest relative in 1,201 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 October 2017): 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

134

The numbers add up to 134 — the 92th 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

25 had not appeared for 10 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 0.6× 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 53≈ 3.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball31≈ 40 by chance£250
  • Match 4329≈ 522 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,026≈ 1.3k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,013≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 312,624≈ 17k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball50,802≈ 55k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball65,704≈ 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 — 329 winners, 37% fewer than the 522 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 Ball65,704£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball50,802£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,013£10.00
    Match 312,624£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,026£20.00
    Match 4329£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball31£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000