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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 28 July 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 9
  3. 13
  4. 29
  5. 32
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 21% 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 385 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-07-27All recent draws2012-08-01 →

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 9 13 29 32 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 July 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 51% of every possible ticket.

  • sum26th
  • odd89th
  • low64th
  • widest gap74th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread70th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 49 of each

148times
951times
1346times
2950times
32

Prize breakdown · 2012-07-28

  • Lines in play≈ 3.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.5Mto 272k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.44

Where the money went

  • Match 317%£252.6K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32%£487.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball24%£365.4K
  • 5 other tiers27%£410.8K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.44 by chance

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63times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 27 of each

535times

Every number was expected about that many times after 384 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, 13, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 July 2012 — its closest relative in 384 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 July 2012): 1, 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

84

The numbers add up to 84 — the 25th 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

13 had not appeared for 8 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less popular than 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 55≈ 5.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball81≈ 74 by chance£250
  • Match 4770≈ 967 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,174≈ 2.5k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball24,511≈ 26k by chance£10.00
  • Match 325,257≈ 32k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball97,434≈ 101k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball121,798≈ 122k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈3.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 25,257 winners, 21% fewer than the 32k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball121,798£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball97,434£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball24,511£10.00
    Match 325,257£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,174£20.00
    Match 4770£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball81£250
    Match 55£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000