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Thunderball · draw

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 14
  5. 28
  6. 13

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 42% 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 1,347 of 3,063 under them

← 2018-07-21All recent draws2018-07-25 →

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 feed4 7 8 14 28 + 1329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 24 July 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

41oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 24% of every possible ticket.

  • sum5th
  • odd9th
  • low89th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread33th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 173 of each

4185times
7179times
8162times
14145times
28

Prize breakdown · 2018-07-24

  • Lines in play≈ 826kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£443.9Kto 71k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.10

Where the money went

  • Match 324%£106.1K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28%£123.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball19%£85.6K
  • 5 other tiers29%£129.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.10 by chance

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174times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 96 of each

1396times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,346 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 (4, 8, 14, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 29 November 2013 — its closest relative in 1,346 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 33% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 July 2018): 28 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

61

The numbers add up to 61 — the 5th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 7–8. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

7 had not appeared for 9 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 2.6× 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 52≈ 1.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball21≈ 17 by chance£250
  • Match 4334≈ 227 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball683≈ 575 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball6,692≈ 6.1k by chance£10.00
  • Match 310,611≈ 7.5k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball24,596≈ 24k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball28,523≈ 29k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈826k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 10,611 winners, 42% more than the 7.5k 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 Ball28,523£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball24,596£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball6,692£10.00
    Match 310,611£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball683£20.00
    Match 4334£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball21£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000