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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 15 May 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 14
  2. 15
  3. 26
  4. 37
  5. 38
  6. 7

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 41% 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 1,725 of 3,064 under them

← 2020-05-13All recent draws2020-05-16 →

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 feed14 15 26 37 38 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 15 May 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 40% of every possible ticket.

  • sum89th
  • odd31th
  • low31th
  • widest gap34th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread33th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 221 of each

14195times
15221times
26231times
37194times
38

Prize breakdown · 2020-05-15

  • Lines in play≈ 1.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£602.2Kto 117k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.20

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15%£91.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35%£208.6K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball28%£169.2K
  • 4 other tiers22%£132.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.20 by chance

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209times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 123 of each

7113times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,724 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 (15, 37, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 September 2019 — its closest relative in 1,724 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 May 2020): 37 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

130

The numbers add up to 130 — the 89th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15, 37–38. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

38 had not appeared for 40 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 50≈ 2.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball27≈ 34 by chance£250
  • Match 4238≈ 448 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball752≈ 1.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,167≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 38,718≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball41,718≈ 47k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball56,404≈ 56k 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 — 8,718 winners, 41% fewer than the 15k 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 Ball56,404£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball41,718£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,167£10.00
    Match 38,718£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball752£20.00
    Match 4238£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball27£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000