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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 1 March 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 14
  3. 15
  4. 18
  5. 22
  6. 14

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 30% 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 477 of 3,064 under them

← 2013-02-27All recent draws2013-03-02 →

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 feed6 14 15 18 22 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 1 March 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

26oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 26 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 6% of every possible ticket.

  • sum15th
  • odd9th
  • low89th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread7th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 61 of each

665times
1451times
1564times
1867times
22

Prize breakdown · 2013-03-01

  • Lines in play≈ 981kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£513.3Kto 86k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.12

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£115.8K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£154.7K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£101.6K
  • 4 other tiers28%£141.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.12 by chance

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53times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 34 of each

1428times

Every number was expected about that many times after 476 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 (6, 18, 22) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 August 2012 — its closest relative in 476 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 February 2013): 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

75

The numbers add up to 75 — the 15th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 14–15. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

15 had not appeared for 32 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 1.7× 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 50≈ 1.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20≈ 21 by chance£250
  • Match 4336≈ 269 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball925≈ 683 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,412≈ 7.3k by chance£10.00
  • Match 311,577≈ 8.9k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30,933≈ 28k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball33,870≈ 34k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈981k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 925 winners, 35% more than the 683 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 Ball33,870£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30,933£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,412£10.00
    Match 311,577£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball925£20.00
    Match 4336£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000