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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 17 August 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 7
  3. 20
  4. 21
  5. 33
  6. 12

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 23% 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 393 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-08-15All recent draws2012-08-18 →

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 feed2 7 20 21 33 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 August 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

66oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 66 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 89% of every possible ticket.

  • sum24th
  • odd64th
  • low64th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread70th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 50 of each

248times
754times
2056times
2158times
33

Prize breakdown · 2012-08-17

  • Lines in play≈ 1.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£494.8Kto 85k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.13

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£112.6K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£147.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%£104.8K
  • 5 other tiers26%£129.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.13 by chance

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44times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 28 of each

1224times

Every number was expected about that many times after 392 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 (2, 21, 33) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 9 July 2010 — its closest relative in 392 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 August 2012): 20 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

83

The numbers add up to 83 — the 24th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 20–21. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

2 had not appeared for 15 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 1.1× 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 51≈ 1.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball11≈ 21 by chance£250
  • Match 4298≈ 277 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball696≈ 704 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,819≈ 7.5k by chance£10.00
  • Match 311,262≈ 9.2k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29,551≈ 29k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball34,932≈ 35k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 11,262 winners, 23% more than the 9.2k 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 Ball34,932£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29,551£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball7,819£10.00
    Match 311,262£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball696£20.00
    Match 4298£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball11£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000