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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 17 February 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 28
  3. 31
  4. 33
  5. 38
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 36% 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 315 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-02-15All recent draws2012-02-18 →

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 28 31 33 38 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 February 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

31oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 31 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 10% of every possible ticket.

  • sum91th
  • odd64th
  • low9th
  • widest gap98th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread91th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 40 of each

332times
2850times
3149times
3335times
38

Prize breakdown · 2012-02-17

  • Lines in play≈ 1.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£608.0Kto 115k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.19

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16%£95.8K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34%£204.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball27%£162.5K
  • 5 other tiers24%£144.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.19 by chance

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37times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

527times

Every number was expected about that many times after 314 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 (28, 33, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 22 October 2011 — its closest relative in 314 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 96% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 February 2012): 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

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

3 had not appeared for 8 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 0.7× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 52≈ 2.5 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15≈ 33 by chance£250
  • Match 4237≈ 430 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball813≈ 1.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,581≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 39,117≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball40,975≈ 45k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball54,156≈ 54k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,117 winners, 36% fewer than the 14k 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 Ball54,156£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball40,975£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,581£10.00
    Match 39,117£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball813£20.00
    Match 4237£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000