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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 5
  3. 10
  4. 21
  5. 34
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 3% 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 335 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-03-31All recent draws2012-04-06 →

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 feed4 5 10 21 34 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 April 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

64oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 64 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 83% of every possible ticket.

  • sum14th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread65th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 43 of each

446times
532times
1051times
2150times
34

Prize breakdown · 2012-04-04

  • Lines in play≈ 2.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.6Mto 188k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.26

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball31%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball22%£360.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball14%£220.5K
  • 6 other tiers33%£532.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.26 by chance

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38times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

528times

Every number was expected about that many times after 334 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 (5, 10, 21, 34) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 July 2011 — its closest relative in 334 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 9.4% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (31 March 2012): 10 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. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

5 had not appeared for 24 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 1.1× 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 56≈ 3.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball49≈ 45 by chance£250
  • Match 4521≈ 584 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,040≈ 1.5k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball21,003≈ 16k by chance£10.00
  • Match 318,770≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball72,045≈ 61k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball73,489≈ 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 3 plus Bonus Ball — 2,040 winners, 38% more than the 1.5k 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 Ball73,489£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball72,045£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball21,003£10.00
    Match 318,770£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,040£20.00
    Match 4521£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball49£250
    Match 56£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000