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Thunderball · draw

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 12
  3. 22
  4. 23
  5. 26
  6. 10

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 15% 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 1,731 of 3,064 under them

← 2020-05-23All recent draws2020-05-27 →

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 feed4 12 22 23 26 + 1029 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 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 41% of every possible ticket.

  • sum30th
  • odd9th
  • low31th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread24th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 222 of each

4244times
12196times
22226times
23223times
26

Prize breakdown · 2020-05-26

  • Lines in play≈ 951kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£488.0Kto 80k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.12

Where the money went

  • Match 320%£98.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29%£141.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£98.5K
  • 5 other tiers31%£149.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.12 by chance

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233times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 124 of each

10124times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,730 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 (4, 12, 23, 26) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 August 2017 — its closest relative in 1,730 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 40% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (23 May 2020): 26 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

87

The numbers add up to 87 — the 29th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 22–23. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

12 had not appeared for 8 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 1.9× 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 55≈ 1.5 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball13≈ 20 by chance£250
  • Match 4305≈ 261 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball741≈ 662 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,548≈ 7.1k by chance£10.00
  • Match 39,868≈ 8.6k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,345≈ 27k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball32,842≈ 33k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈951k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,868 winners, 15% more than the 8.6k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball32,842£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,345£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,548£10.00
    Match 39,868£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball741£20.00
    Match 4305£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball13£250
    Match 55£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000