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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 22 December 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 18
  2. 19
  3. 21
  4. 24
  5. 30
  6. 12

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 36% 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 448 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-12-21All recent draws2012-12-26 →

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 feed18 19 21 24 30 + 1229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 December 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 26% of every possible ticket.

  • sum69th
  • odd31th
  • low31th
  • widest gap4th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread2th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 57 of each

1863times
1963times
2168times
2458times
30

Prize breakdown · 2012-12-22

  • Lines in play≈ 2.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 225k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.32

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£312.8K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£403.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball19%£263.4K
  • 5 other tiers28%£381.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.32 by chance

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66times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 32 of each

1231times

Every number was expected about that many times after 447 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, 19, 24) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 30 November 2012 — its closest relative in 447 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 December 2012): 19, 21 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

112

The numbers add up to 112 — the 68th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 18–19. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

18 had not appeared for 10 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 1.6× as often as an average ticket — more popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 1% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 53≈ 4.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball57≈ 54 by chance£250
  • Match 4912≈ 697 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,218≈ 1.8k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball21,706≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 331,276≈ 23k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball80,640≈ 73k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball87,787≈ 88k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 31,276 winners, 36% more than the 23k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 Ball87,787£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball80,640£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball21,706£10.00
    Match 331,276£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,218£20.00
    Match 4912£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball57£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000