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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 7 April 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 17
  3. 31
  4. 36
  5. 37
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 49% 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 337 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-04-06All recent draws2012-04-11 →

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 17 31 36 37 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 7 April 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

39oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 39 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 21% of every possible ticket.

  • sum82th
  • odd89th
  • low31th
  • widest gap74th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread94th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 43 of each

142times
1748times
3151times
3637times
37

Prize breakdown · 2012-04-07

  • Lines in play≈ 4.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 277k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 15lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.51

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14%£195.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35%£474.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball31%£424.9K
  • 5 other tiers20%£279.1K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.51 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

529times

Every number was expected about that many times after 336 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 (1, 17, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 April 2012 — its closest relative in 336 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (6 April 2012): 1, 17, 37 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

122

The numbers add up to 122 — the 81th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 36–37. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

36 had not appeared for 11 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 0.6× 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 51≈ 6.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball34≈ 87 by chance£250
  • Match 4470≈ 1.1k by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,518≈ 2.9k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,571≈ 30k by chance£10.00
  • Match 318,822≈ 37k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball94,869≈ 118k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball141,623≈ 142k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈4.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 470 winners, 58% fewer than the 1.1k 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 Ball141,623£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball94,869£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,571£10.00
    Match 318,822£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,518£20.00
    Match 4470£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball34£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000