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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 12 May 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 11
  2. 14
  3. 17
  4. 23
  5. 39
  6. 2

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 15% 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 352 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-05-11All recent draws2012-05-16 →

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 feed11 14 17 23 39 + 229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 May 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.

  • sum56th
  • odd89th
  • low64th
  • widest gap74th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread53th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 45 of each

1146times
1435times
1752times
2351times
39

Prize breakdown · 2012-05-12

  • Lines in play≈ 2.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.3Mto 215k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.32

Where the money went

  • Match 322%£269.8K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£381.4K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%£268.2K
  • 5 other tiers27%£332.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.32 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 25 of each

218times

Every number was expected about that many times after 351 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 (14, 17, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 27 April 2011 — its closest relative in 351 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 May 2012): 17 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

104

The numbers add up to 104 — the 56th 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

39 had not appeared for 33 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 0.9× 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 53≈ 4.2 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball49≈ 55 by chance£250
  • Match 4786≈ 710 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,695≈ 1.8k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,309≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 326,984≈ 23k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball76,280≈ 75k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball89,407≈ 89k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 26,984 winners, 15% more than the 23k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball89,407£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball76,280£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,309£10.00
    Match 326,984£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,695£20.00
    Match 4786£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball49£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000