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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 14 July 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 16
  3. 26
  4. 28
  5. 36
  6. 12

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 6% 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 1,342 of 3,062 under them

← 2018-07-13All recent draws2018-07-17 →

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 feed1 16 26 28 36 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 14 July 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 44% of every possible ticket.

  • sum61th
  • odd9th
  • low31th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread91th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 172 of each

1168times
16181times
26176times
28172times
36

Prize breakdown · 2018-07-14

  • Lines in play≈ 2.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.6Mto 189k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.30

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball32%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball21%£332.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball16%£248.1K
  • 6 other tiers31%£479.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.30 by chance

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154times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 96 of each

1294times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,341 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 (1, 16, 26, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 March 2013 — its closest relative in 1,341 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 33% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 July 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

107

The numbers add up to 107 — the 60th 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

36 had not appeared for 15 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 0.9× 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≈ 3.9 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball50≈ 51 by chance£250
  • Match 4584≈ 657 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,608≈ 1.7k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,885≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 320,297≈ 22k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball66,409≈ 69k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball82,688≈ 83k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 584 winners, 11% fewer than the 657 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 Ball82,688£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball66,409£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,885£10.00
    Match 320,297£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,608£20.00
    Match 4584£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball50£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000