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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 18 August 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 10
  3. 13
  4. 24
  5. 33
  6. 9

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld about as often as 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 1,362 of 3,063 under them

← 2018-08-17All recent draws2018-08-21 →

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 10 13 24 33 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 18 August 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

61oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 75% of every possible ticket.

  • sum23th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap34th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread70th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 174 of each

2184times
10184times
13177times
24170times
33

Prize breakdown · 2018-08-18

  • Lines in play≈ 2.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.2Mto 202k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.31

Where the money went

  • Match 319%£230.4K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£355.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball22%£261.5K
  • 5 other tiers29%£346.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.31 by chance

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169times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 97 of each

970times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,361 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, 13, 24) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 August 2018 — its closest relative in 1,361 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (17 August 2018): 13 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

82

The numbers add up to 82 — the 22th 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

2 had not appeared for 12 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 0.7× 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 57≈ 4.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball59≈ 53 by chance£250
  • Match 4777≈ 692 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,808≈ 1.8k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,304≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 323,035≈ 23k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball71,049≈ 73k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball87,180≈ 87k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 777 winners, 12% more than the 692 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball87,180£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball71,049£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,304£10.00
    Match 323,035£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,808£20.00
    Match 4777£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball59£250
    Match 57£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000