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Thunderball · draw

Tuesday, 8 December 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 10
  2. 14
  3. 21
  4. 24
  5. 26
  6. 12

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 1,843 of 3,064 under them

← 2020-12-05All recent draws2020-12-09 →

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 feed10 14 21 24 26 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 8 December 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.

  • sum42th
  • odd9th
  • low31th
  • widest gap8th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread7th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 236 of each

10250times
14210times
21252times
24238times
26

Prize breakdown · 2020-12-08

  • Lines in play≈ 973kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£473.9Kto 81k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.12

Where the money went

  • Match 321%£101.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£141.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%£100.8K
  • 4 other tiers27%£130.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.12 by chance

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246times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 132 of each

12131times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,842 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 (14, 21, 26) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 25 July 2020 — its closest relative in 1,842 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (5 December 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

95

The numbers add up to 95 — the 41th 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

21 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 1.8× 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 50≈ 1.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball27≈ 21 by chance£250
  • Match 4341≈ 267 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball694≈ 677 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,526≈ 7.2k by chance£10.00
  • Match 310,146≈ 8.8k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,337≈ 28k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball33,594≈ 34k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈973k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 10,146 winners, 15% more than the 8.8k 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 Ball33,594£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,337£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,526£10.00
    Match 310,146£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball694£20.00
    Match 4341£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball27£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000