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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 22 April 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 4
  3. 8
  4. 14
  5. 29
  6. 10

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 26% 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 1,712 of 3,063 under them

← 2020-04-21All recent draws2020-04-24 →

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 4 8 14 29 + 1029 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 April 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

44oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 44 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 30% of every possible ticket.

  • sum4th
  • odd9th
  • low89th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread48th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 219 of each

2216times
4242times
8211times
14192times
29

Prize breakdown · 2020-04-22

  • Lines in play≈ 1.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£612.7Kto 102k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.15

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£138.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29%£178.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£125.0K
  • 5 other tiers28%£170.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.15 by chance

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238times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 122 of each

10123times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,711 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 (8, 14, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 26 February 2020 — its closest relative in 1,711 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 April 2020): 4, 8 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

57

The numbers add up to 57 — the 3th 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 25 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 2.3× 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 51≈ 1.9 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball33≈ 25 by chance£250
  • Match 4418≈ 331 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,041≈ 840 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,502≈ 9.0k by chance£10.00
  • Match 313,798≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35,778≈ 35k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball41,660≈ 42k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 13,798 winners, 26% more than the 11k 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 Ball41,660£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35,778£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,502£10.00
    Match 313,798£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,041£20.00
    Match 4418£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball33£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000