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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 26 May 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 21
  2. 30
  3. 34
  4. 35
  5. 39
  6. 8

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 47% 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 358 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-05-25All recent draws2012-05-30 →

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 feed21 30 34 35 39 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 26 May 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

31oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 31 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 10% of every possible ticket.

  • sum100th
  • odd64th
  • low1th
  • widest gap18th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread11th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 46 of each

2154times
3053times
3440times
3528times
39

Prize breakdown · 2012-05-26

  • Lines in play≈ 4.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 268k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 15lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.49

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15%£197.1K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£452.4K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball30%£410.5K
  • 5 other tiers22%£296.6K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.49 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 26 of each

833times

Every number was expected about that many times after 357 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 (21, 30, 34) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 April 2010 — its closest relative in 357 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 97% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (25 May 2012): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

159

The numbers add up to 159 — the 99th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 34–35. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

30 had not appeared for 17 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 52≈ 6.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball55≈ 84 by chance£250
  • Match 4491≈ 1.1k by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,722≈ 2.8k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,714≈ 29k by chance£10.00
  • Match 318,927≈ 36k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball90,478≈ 114k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball136,820≈ 137k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈4.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 491 winners, 55% 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 Ball136,820£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball90,478£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,714£10.00
    Match 318,927£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,722£20.00
    Match 4491£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball55£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000