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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 16
  3. 26
  4. 29
  5. 36
  6. 9

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 28% 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 479 of 3,063 under them

← 2013-03-02All recent draws2013-03-08 →

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 feed1 16 26 29 36 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 6 March 2013 — 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 65% of every possible ticket.

  • sum63th
  • odd31th
  • low31th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread91th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 61 of each

155times
1655times
2662times
2963times
36

Prize breakdown · 2013-03-06

  • Lines in play≈ 2.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£811.8Kto 151k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.25

Where the money went

  • Match 316%£131.2K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£269.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball26%£210.0K
  • 5 other tiers25%£200.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.25 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 34 of each

921times

Every number was expected about that many times after 478 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 (1, 16, 26) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 11 July 2012 — its closest relative in 478 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (2 March 2013): 29 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

108

The numbers add up to 108 — the 62th 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

36 had not appeared for 28 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 0.9× 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 52≈ 3.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball31≈ 43 by chance£250
  • Match 4361≈ 556 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,022≈ 1.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,640≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 313,124≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball53,975≈ 58k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball69,984≈ 70k 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 4 — 361 winners, 35% fewer than the 556 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 Ball69,984£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball53,975£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball12,640£10.00
    Match 313,124£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,022£20.00
    Match 4361£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball31£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000