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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 9
  3. 21
  4. 27
  5. 39
  6. 9

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 8% 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 443 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-12-08All recent draws2012-12-14 →

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 feed4 9 21 27 39 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

57oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 57 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 67% of every possible ticket.

  • sum50th
  • odd89th
  • low31th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread91th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 57 of each

460times
958times
2166times
2754times
39

Prize breakdown · 2012-12-12

  • Lines in play≈ 2.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£943.2Kto 163k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.24

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18%£167.9K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32%£299.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball22%£203.8K
  • 5 other tiers29%£271.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.24 by chance

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51times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 32 of each

918times

Every number was expected about that many times after 442 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 (4, 21, 27) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 November 2011 — its closest relative in 442 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (8 December 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

100

The numbers add up to 100 — the 49th 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

27 had not appeared for 14 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 1.0× 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 53≈ 3.2 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball50≈ 42 by chance£250
  • Match 4470≈ 540 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,691≈ 1.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,787≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 316,335≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball59,968≈ 57k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball67,929≈ 68k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,691 winners, 23% more than the 1.4k 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 Ball67,929£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball59,968£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,787£10.00
    Match 316,335£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,691£20.00
    Match 4470£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball50£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000