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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 21
  2. 29
  3. 35
  4. 36
  5. 38
  6. 2

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 21% 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 557 of 3,063 under them

← 2013-08-31All recent draws2013-09-06 →

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 feed21 29 35 36 38 + 229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

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

28oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 28 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 7% of every possible ticket.

  • sum100th
  • odd64th
  • low1th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread9th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 71 of each

2182times
2976times
3550times
3660times
38

Prize breakdown · 2013-09-04

  • Lines in play≈ 1.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£614.9Kto 112k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.20

Where the money went

  • Match 318%£112.9K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£184.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball27%£164.4K
  • 5 other tiers25%£153.6K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.20 by chance

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

Times drawn before — chance expected 40 of each

232times

Every number was expected about that many times after 556 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 (35, 36, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 29 December 2012 — its closest relative in 556 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (31 August 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

159

The numbers add up to 159 — the 99th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 35–36. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

21 had not appeared for 15 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 5% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 54≈ 2.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15≈ 33 by chance£250
  • Match 4311≈ 435 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball746≈ 1.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,385≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 311,285≈ 14k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball36,815≈ 46k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball54,797≈ 55k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 746 winners, 32% fewer than the 1.1k 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 Ball54,797£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball36,815£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,385£10.00
    Match 311,285£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball746£20.00
    Match 4311£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball15£250
    Match 54£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000