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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 23 March 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 4
  3. 14
  4. 24
  5. 30
  6. 12

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 41% 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 330 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-03-21All recent draws2012-03-24 →

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 feed2 4 14 24 30 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 23 March 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

50oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 46% of every possible ticket.

  • sum14th
  • odd1th
  • low64th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread53th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 42 of each

242times
443times
1433times
2447times
30

Prize breakdown · 2012-03-23

  • Lines in play≈ 971kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£512.6Kto 83k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.12

Where the money went

  • Match 324%£123.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28%£142.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£100.6K
  • 5 other tiers28%£145.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.12 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

50times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

1215times

Every number was expected about that many times after 329 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 (2, 14, 30) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 13 January 2012 — its closest relative in 329 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 96% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 March 2012): 2 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

74

The numbers add up to 74 — the 14th 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

14 had not appeared for 30 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 2.0× 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 52≈ 1.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15≈ 20 by chance£250
  • Match 4401≈ 266 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball776≈ 676 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,595≈ 7.2k by chance£10.00
  • Match 312,374≈ 8.8k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,582≈ 28k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball33,535≈ 34k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈971k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 12,374 winners, 41% more than the 8.8k 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 Ball33,535£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,582£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,595£10.00
    Match 312,374£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball776£20.00
    Match 4401£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000