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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 28 July 2021

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 30
  3. 33
  4. 36
  5. 38
  6. 4

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 32% 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 1,976 of 3,063 under them

← 2021-07-27All recent draws2021-07-30 →

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 feed7 30 33 36 38 + 429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 July 2021 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

35oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.

  • sum97th
  • odd31th
  • low9th
  • widest gap96th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread70th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 253 of each

7258times
30279times
33252times
36231times
38

Prize breakdown · 2021-07-28

  • Lines in play≈ 1.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£564.6Kto 107k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.18

Where the money went

  • Match 316%£91.3K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£188.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball27%£152.7K
  • 5 other tiers23%£132.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.18 by chance

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242times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 141 of each

4144times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,975 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 (7, 30, 33, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 August 2013 — its closest relative in 1,975 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 44% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 July 2021): 7 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

144

The numbers add up to 144 — the 97th 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

38 had not appeared for 16 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≈ 2.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball23≈ 31 by chance£250
  • Match 4252≈ 404 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball650≈ 1.0k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,305≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 39,129≈ 13k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball37,736≈ 42k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball50,890≈ 51k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 650 winners, 37% fewer than the 1.0k 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 Ball50,890£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball37,736£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,305£10.00
    Match 39,129£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball650£20.00
    Match 4252£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball23£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000