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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 21 April 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 13
  4. 18
  5. 21
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 8% 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 343 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-04-20All recent draws2012-04-25 →

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 feed6 8 13 18 21 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 21 April 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

29oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 29 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 8% of every possible ticket.

  • sum8th
  • odd31th
  • low89th
  • widest gap2th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread5th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 44 of each

644times
845times
1339times
1841times
21

Prize breakdown · 2012-04-21

  • Lines in play≈ 3.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.7Mto 290k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.43

Where the money went

  • Match 319%£336.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£518.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%£356.8K
  • 5 other tiers30%£517.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.43 by chance

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52times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 24 of each

530times

Every number was expected about that many times after 342 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 (6, 18, 21) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 22 January 2011 — its closest relative in 342 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 April 2012): 21 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

66

The numbers add up to 66 — the 8th 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

6 had not appeared for 12 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 1.6× 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 55≈ 5.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball101≈ 73 by chance£250
  • Match 41,122≈ 945 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball3,021≈ 2.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball29,437≈ 26k by chance£10.00
  • Match 333,667≈ 31k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball103,607≈ 99k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball118,934≈ 119k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈3.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 3,021 winners, 26% more than the 2.4k 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 Ball118,934£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball103,607£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball29,437£10.00
    Match 333,667£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball3,021£20.00
    Match 41,122£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball101£250
    Match 55£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000