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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 6 May 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 20
  3. 33
  4. 36
  5. 39
  6. 6

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 38% 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 1,720 of 3,064 under them

← 2020-05-05All recent draws2020-05-08 →

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 20 33 36 39 + 629 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 6 May 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

40oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 22% of every possible ticket.

  • sum88th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap88th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread99th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 220 of each

1206times
20232times
33213times
36199times
39

Prize breakdown · 2020-05-06

  • Lines in play≈ 1.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£576.6Kto 110k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.19

Where the money went

  • Match 315%£87.8K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£188.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball28%£162.1K
  • 5 other tiers24%£138.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.19 by chance

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204times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each

6110times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,719 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 (1, 20, 33) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 September 2019 — its closest relative in 1,719 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 May 2020): 33, 39 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

129

The numbers add up to 129 — the 88th 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

1 had not appeared for 22 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 52≈ 2.5 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22≈ 33 by chance£250
  • Match 4239≈ 429 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball732≈ 1.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,391≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 38,776≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball37,758≈ 45k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball54,031≈ 54k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 8,776 winners, 38% fewer than the 14k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 Ball54,031£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball37,758£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,391£10.00
    Match 38,776£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball732£20.00
    Match 4239£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000