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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 4 August 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 15
  3. 28
  4. 29
  5. 32
  6. 13

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 388 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-08-03All recent draws2012-08-08 →

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 feed3 15 28 29 32 + 1329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 August 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

74oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 74 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 98% of every possible ticket.

  • sum61th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread59th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 50 of each

343times
1554times
2862times
2951times
32

Prize breakdown · 2012-08-04

  • Lines in play≈ 2.7Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.3Mto 221k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.33

Where the money went

  • Match 321%£279.3K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£391.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%£277.0K
  • 5 other tiers28%£373.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.33 by chance

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64times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each

1329times

Every number was expected about that many times after 387 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 (3, 15, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 June 2012 — its closest relative in 387 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 August 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

107

The numbers add up to 107 — the 60th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

15 had not appeared for 13 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 57≈ 4.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball69≈ 56 by chance£250
  • Match 4830≈ 733 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,919≈ 1.9k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,936≈ 20k by chance£10.00
  • Match 327,928≈ 24k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball78,229≈ 77k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball92,329≈ 92k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 27,928 winners, 15% more than the 24k 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 Ball92,329£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball78,229£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,936£10.00
    Match 327,928£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,919£20.00
    Match 4830£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball69£250
    Match 57£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000