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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 3 March 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 6
  3. 13
  4. 27
  5. 30
  6. 12

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 32% more 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 322 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-03-02All recent draws2012-03-07 →

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 13 27 30 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 March 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

66oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 89% of every possible ticket.

  • sum17th
  • odd64th
  • low64th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread59th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 41 of each

139times
641times
1336times
2737times
30

Prize breakdown · 2012-03-03

  • Lines in play≈ 2.7Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 229k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.34

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£324.1K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28%£392.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£280.8K
  • 5 other tiers30%£420.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.34 by chance

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48times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 23 of each

1214times

Every number was expected about that many times after 321 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 (6, 13, 27, 30) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 January 2010 — its closest relative in 321 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 9.1% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (2 March 2012): 1 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

77

The numbers add up to 77 — the 17th 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

13 had not appeared for 28 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 1.5× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 510≈ 4.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball68≈ 57 by chance£250
  • Match 41,040≈ 743 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,001≈ 1.9k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,934≈ 20k by chance£10.00
  • Match 332,410≈ 25k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball78,497≈ 78k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball93,584≈ 94k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,040 winners, 40% more than the 743 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 Ball93,584£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball78,497£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,934£10.00
    Match 332,410£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,001£20.00
    Match 41,040£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball68£250
    Match 510£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000