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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 25 August 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 18
  3. 30
  4. 32
  5. 34
  6. 12

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 5% 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 1,366 of 3,062 under them

← 2018-08-24All recent draws2018-08-28 →

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 feed1 18 30 32 34 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 25 August 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

45oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 45 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 32% of every possible ticket.

  • sum73th
  • odd9th
  • low31th
  • widest gap79th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread81th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 175 of each

1173times
18187times
30202times
32200times
34

Prize breakdown · 2018-08-25

  • Lines in play≈ 2.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.0Mto 179k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.28

Where the money went

  • Match 319%£194.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32%£319.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball23%£235.1K
  • 5 other tiers26%£257.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.28 by chance

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176times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 98 of each

1296times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,365 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, 18, 30, 34) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 20 May 2017 — its closest relative in 1,365 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 33% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (24 August 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

115

The numbers add up to 115 — the 72th 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

34 had not appeared for 17 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 0.6× 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 52≈ 3.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball35≈ 48 by chance£250
  • Match 4535≈ 623 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,396≈ 1.6k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,755≈ 17k by chance£10.00
  • Match 319,473≈ 21k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball63,815≈ 65k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball78,379≈ 78k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 535 winners, 14% fewer than the 623 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 Ball78,379£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball63,815£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,755£10.00
    Match 319,473£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,396£20.00
    Match 4535£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball35£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000