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Thunderball · draw

Tuesday, 25 August 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 29
  3. 33
  4. 35
  5. 37
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 33% 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 1,783 of 3,063 under them

← 2020-08-22All recent draws2020-08-26 →

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 feed8 29 33 35 37 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 25 August 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

33oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 33 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 13% of every possible ticket.

  • sum96th
  • odd89th
  • low9th
  • widest gap93th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread59th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 228 of each

8218times
29254times
33221times
35196times
37

Prize breakdown · 2020-08-25

  • Lines in play≈ 1.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£977.9Kto 90k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.15

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball51%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball16%£158.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball13%£127.8K
  • 6 other tiers20%£191.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.15 by chance

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203times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 127 of each

5133times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,782 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, 33, 35) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 December 2019 — its closest relative in 1,782 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (22 August 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

142

The numbers add up to 142 — the 96th 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

8 had not appeared for 13 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 0.5× 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 51≈ 2.0 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball13≈ 26 by chance£250
  • Match 4213≈ 338 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball632≈ 859 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,508≈ 9.2k by chance£10.00
  • Match 37,433≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31,692≈ 35k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball42,599≈ 43k 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 — 7,433 winners, 33% fewer than the 11k 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 Ball42,599£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31,692£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,508£10.00
    Match 37,433£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball632£20.00
    Match 4213£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball13£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000