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Thunderball · draw

Tuesday, 25 December 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 11
  3. 16
  4. 30
  5. 36
  6. 7

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 24% 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 1,435 of 3,063 under them

← 2018-12-22All recent draws2018-12-26 →

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 feed6 11 16 30 36 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

66oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 88% of every possible ticket.

  • sum48th
  • odd9th
  • low64th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread65th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 184 of each

6195times
11163times
16191times
30209times
36

Prize breakdown · 2018-12-25

  • Lines in play≈ 1.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£544.5Kto 99k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.16

Where the money went

  • Match 316%£88.2K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£178.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball25%£133.6K
  • 5 other tiers26%£144.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.16 by chance

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167times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 102 of each

793times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,434 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 (6, 11, 30, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 19 September 2018 — its closest relative in 1,434 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 35% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 December 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

99

The numbers add up to 99 — the 48th 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

30 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≈ 2.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball34≈ 27 by chance£250
  • Match 4280≈ 354 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball775≈ 898 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,705≈ 9.6k by chance£10.00
  • Match 38,817≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35,747≈ 37k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball44,522≈ 45k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,817 winners, 24% fewer than the 12k 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 Ball44,522£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35,747£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,705£10.00
    Match 38,817£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball775£20.00
    Match 4280£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball34£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000