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Thunderball · draw

Tuesday, 20 February 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. 22
  5. 26
  6. 3

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 29% 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 1,259 of 3,063 under them

← 2018-02-17All recent draws2018-02-21 →

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 feed2 3 5 22 26 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 February 2018 — 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 45% of every possible ticket.

  • sum4th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap79th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread33th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 161 of each

2169times
3160times
5155times
22173times
26

Prize breakdown · 2018-02-20

  • Lines in play≈ 666kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£356.4Kto 59k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.08

Where the money went

  • Match 322%£77.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£108.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball19%£69.0K
  • 5 other tiers29%£101.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.08 by chance

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166times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 90 of each

3103times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,258 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 (2, 3, 5, 22) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 9 January 2016 — its closest relative in 1,258 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 31% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 February 2018): 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

58

The numbers add up to 58 — the 4th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 2–3. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

2 had not appeared for 19 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 2.3× 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 51≈ 1.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15≈ 14 by chance£250
  • Match 4210≈ 183 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball607≈ 464 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball5,974≈ 4.9k by chance£10.00
  • Match 37,766≈ 6.0k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball21,618≈ 19k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball22,994≈ 23k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈666k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 7,766 winners, 29% more than the 6.0k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 Ball22,994£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball21,618£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball5,974£10.00
    Match 37,766£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball607£20.00
    Match 4210£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000