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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 23
  3. 26
  4. 29
  5. 38
  6. 9

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 17% 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 308 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-01-28All recent draws2012-02-03 →

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 feed17 23 26 29 38 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 1 February 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

40oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 22% of every possible ticket.

  • sum91th
  • odd64th
  • low9th
  • widest gap18th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread20th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each

1743times
2345times
2642times
2938times
38

Prize breakdown · 2012-02-01

  • Lines in play≈ 2.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 164k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.26

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball36%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball21%£293.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball16%£217.7K
  • 5 other tiers28%£387.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.26 by chance

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36times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

914times

Every number was expected about that many times after 307 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 (23, 26, 29) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 29 October 2011 — its closest relative in 307 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (28 January 2012): 38 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

133

The numbers add up to 133 — the 91th 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

26 had not appeared for 21 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than 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≈ 3.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball30≈ 44 by chance£250
  • Match 4452≈ 576 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,340≈ 1.5k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,050≈ 16k by chance£10.00
  • Match 315,704≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball58,640≈ 60k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball72,563≈ 73k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 452 winners, 22% fewer than the 576 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball72,563£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball58,640£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,050£10.00
    Match 315,704£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,340£20.00
    Match 4452£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball30£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000