LotteryOracle
GamesForecastPlaygroundCase filesMy numbers

Loading…

Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.

LotteryOracle

LotteryOracle reports what happened; it does not predict what is next. Every draw is independent — no number is ever "due".

GamesPlaygroundCase filesThe weekDataAboutMethodologyPrivacy
Built byejoyful

Responsible play.A lottery costs more than it pays back; if it stops being fun, help is free and confidential:🇬🇧 0808 8020 133all helplines →

Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 7
  3. 14
  4. 15
  5. 30
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 6% 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 485 of 3,063 under them

← 2013-03-16All recent draws2013-03-22 →

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 feed3 7 14 15 30 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 March 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

54oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 54 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 57% of every possible ticket.

  • sum10th
  • odd64th
  • low89th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread48th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 62 of each

355times
764times
1452times
1566times
30

Prize breakdown · 2013-03-20

  • Lines in play≈ 2.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.0Mto 170k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.25

Where the money went

  • Match 319%£189.8K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31%£313.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£205.5K
  • 5 other tiers30%£298.1K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.25 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

72times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 35 of each

541times

Every number was expected about that many times after 484 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 (3, 15, 30) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 June 2012 — its closest relative in 484 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 March 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

69

The numbers add up to 69 — the 10th 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

14 had not appeared for 8 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 2.5× 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 52≈ 3.2 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball41≈ 42 by chance£250
  • Match 4622≈ 544 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,843≈ 1.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,877≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 318,977≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball62,626≈ 57k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball68,503≈ 69k 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 — 1,843 winners, 33% more than the 1.4k 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 Ball68,503£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball62,626£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17,877£10.00
    Match 318,977£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,843£20.00
    Match 4622£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball41£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000