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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 11 May 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 4
  3. 6
  4. 17
  5. 32
  6. 1

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 39% 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 351 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-05-09All recent draws2012-05-12 →

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 4 6 17 32 + 129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 11 May 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

46oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 46 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 34% of every possible ticket.

  • sum5th
  • odd31th
  • low89th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread70th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 45 of each

144times
449times
646times
1751times
32

Prize breakdown · 2012-05-11

  • Lines in play≈ 845kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£441.0Kto 74k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.10

Where the money went

  • Match 324%£106.4K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29%£129.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£87.5K
  • 4 other tiers27%£117.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.10 by chance

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57times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each

128times

Every number was expected about that many times after 350 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, 17, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 February 2012 — its closest relative in 350 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (9 May 2012): 4, 32 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

60

The numbers add up to 60 — the 4th 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

1 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 1.0× 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 50≈ 1.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball17≈ 18 by chance£250
  • Match 4282≈ 232 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball692≈ 588 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,149≈ 6.3k by chance£10.00
  • Match 310,640≈ 7.6k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball25,860≈ 24k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball29,162≈ 29k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈845k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 10,640 winners, 39% more than the 7.6k 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 Ball29,162£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball25,860£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,149£10.00
    Match 310,640£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball692£20.00
    Match 4282£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball17£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000