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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 16 December 2022

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 6
  3. 10
  4. 28
  5. 39
  6. 14

Jackpot£500,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/39 + 1/14 · since Jan 2010draw 2,265 of 3,064 under them

← 2022-12-14All recent draws2022-12-17 →

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 feed1 6 10 28 39 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 December 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

46oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 34% of every possible ticket.

  • sum26th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap84th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread99th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 290 of each

1278times
6311times
10296times
28289times
39

Prize breakdown · 2022-12-16

  • Paid out£0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winners£500.0K
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000
  2. Match 50£5,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0£250
  4. Match 4

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279times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 162 of each

14166times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,264 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 4 of 5 numbers (1, 6, 10, 39) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 January 2014 — its closest relative in 2,264 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 49% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 December 2022): 39 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

84

The numbers add up to 84 — the 25th 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

10 had not appeared for 24 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 1.1× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

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£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0£10.00
  • Match 30£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0£10.00
    Match 30£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0£20.00
    Match 40£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000