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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 4 May 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 24
  3. 30
  4. 31
  5. 37
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 32% 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 505 of 3,063 under them

← 2013-05-03All recent draws2013-05-08 →

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 feed3 24 30 31 37 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 May 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

35oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.

  • sum85th
  • odd64th
  • low9th
  • widest gap93th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread86th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 65 of each

359times
2464times
3075times
3179times
37

Prize breakdown · 2013-05-04

  • Lines in play≈ 3.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 265k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.44

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16%£228.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35%£484.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball26%£363.3K
  • 5 other tiers23%£325.7K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.44 by chance

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46times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 36 of each

545times

Every number was expected about that many times after 504 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, 24, 30) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 April 2012 — its closest relative in 504 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 May 2013): 30 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

125

The numbers add up to 125 — the 84th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 30–31. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

24 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 1.0× 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 52≈ 5.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball44≈ 74 by chance£250
  • Match 4524≈ 962 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,832≈ 2.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball22,854≈ 26k by chance£10.00
  • Match 321,565≈ 32k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball96,807≈ 101k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball121,087≈ 121k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈3.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 524 winners, 46% fewer than the 962 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 Ball121,087£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball96,807£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball22,854£10.00
    Match 321,565£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,832£20.00
    Match 4524£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball44£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000