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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 18
  3. 23
  4. 36
  5. 39
  6. 7

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 50% 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 404 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-09-08All recent draws2012-09-14 →

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 feed17 18 23 36 39 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 September 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 68% of every possible ticket.

  • sum91th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread24th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 52 of each

1759times
1853times
2360times
3645times
39

Prize breakdown · 2012-09-12

  • Lines in play≈ 2.9Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.0Mto 203k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.35

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15%£157.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball36%£370.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball29%£296.2K
  • 5 other tiers20%£206.5K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.35 by chance

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43times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 29 of each

714times

Every number was expected about that many times after 403 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 (18, 36, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 14 July 2012 — its closest relative in 403 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 98% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (8 September 2012): 23 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

133

The numbers add up to 133 — the 91th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 17–18. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

36 had not appeared for 25 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 53≈ 4.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20≈ 60 by chance£250
  • Match 4356≈ 784 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,123≈ 2.0k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,765≈ 21k by chance£10.00
  • Match 312,843≈ 26k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball74,094≈ 82k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball98,725≈ 99k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.9M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 356 winners, 55% fewer than the 784 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 Ball98,725£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball74,094£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,765£10.00
    Match 312,843£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,123£20.00
    Match 4356£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000