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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 16 May 2025

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 25
  3. 27
  4. 28
  5. 36
  6. 13

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 7% 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 2,769 of 3,064 under them

← 2025-05-14All recent draws2025-05-17 →

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 feed3 25 27 28 36 + 1329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 May 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

38oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 20% of every possible ticket.

  • sum78th
  • odd64th
  • low9th
  • widest gap95th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread81th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 355 of each

3354times
25342times
27353times
28361times
36

Prize breakdown · 2025-05-16

  • Lines in play≈ 1.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£518.2Kto 93k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.14

Where the money went

  • Match 319%£97.4K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£172.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball23%£119.7K
  • 4 other tiers25%£128.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.14 by chance

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339times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 198 of each

13221times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,768 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 (3, 25, 28, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 19 January 2018 — its closest relative in 2,768 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 56% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 May 2025): 27 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

119

The numbers add up to 119 — the 78th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 27–28. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 had not appeared for 14 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 0.9× 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.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.9 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball26≈ 24 by chance£250
  • Match 4241≈ 317 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball777≈ 805 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,268≈ 8.6k by chance£10.00
  • Match 39,744≈ 10k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34,450≈ 33k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball39,912≈ 40k 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 — 9,744 winners, 7% fewer than the 10k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball39,912£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34,450£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,268£10.00
    Match 39,744£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball777£20.00
    Match 4241£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball26£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000