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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 1 May 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 19
  3. 26
  4. 28
  5. 29
  6. 7

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 1,717 of 3,064 under them

← 2020-04-29All recent draws2020-05-02 →

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 feed7 19 26 28 29 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 1 May 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

65oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 65 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 87% of every possible ticket.

  • sum64th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread24th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 220 of each

7223times
19232times
26230times
28219times
29

Prize breakdown · 2020-05-01

  • Lines in play≈ 1.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.2Mto 124k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.17

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball41%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball19%£234.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball12%£145.7K
  • 6 other tiers28%£350.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.17 by chance

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239times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each

7112times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,716 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 (7, 26, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 15 April 2020 — its closest relative in 1,716 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 April 2020): 7, 19 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

109

The numbers add up to 109 — the 64th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

26 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 2.0× 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≈ 2.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball51≈ 30 by chance£250
  • Match 4352≈ 386 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,546≈ 979 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,084≈ 10k by chance£10.00
  • Match 312,534≈ 13k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball46,840≈ 40k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball48,582≈ 49k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,546 winners, 58% more than the 979 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 Ball48,582£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball46,840£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,084£10.00
    Match 312,534£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,546£20.00
    Match 4352£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball51£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000