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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 27 April 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 18
  3. 25
  4. 29
  5. 39
  6. 1

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 26% 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 1,297 of 3,063 under them

← 2018-04-25All recent draws2018-04-28 →

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 feed7 18 25 29 39 + 129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 27 April 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 46% of every possible ticket.

  • sum77th
  • odd89th
  • low31th
  • widest gap34th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread76th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 166 of each

7169times
18179times
25163times
29171times
39

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-27

  • Lines in play≈ 1.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£521.8Kto 88k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.13

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£119.9K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£154.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%£108.8K
  • 5 other tiers26%£138.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.13 by chance

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149times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 93 of each

195times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,296 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 (18, 25, 29, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 July 2014 — its closest relative in 1,296 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 32% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (25 April 2018): 7 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 1 repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

118

The numbers add up to 118 — the 76th 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

29 had not appeared for 16 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≈ 1.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball25≈ 22 by chance£250
  • Match 4354≈ 288 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball698≈ 731 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,763≈ 7.8k by chance£10.00
  • Match 311,986≈ 9.5k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30,987≈ 30k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball36,261≈ 36k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 11,986 winners, 26% more than the 9.5k 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 Ball36,261£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30,987£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,763£10.00
    Match 311,986£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball698£20.00
    Match 4354£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball25£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000