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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 22 March 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 12
  3. 18
  4. 19
  5. 29
  6. 14

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 32% 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 643 of 3,062 under them

← 2014-03-21All recent draws2014-03-26 →

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 12 18 19 29 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 March 2014 — 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 66% of every possible ticket.

  • sum19th
  • odd64th
  • low89th
  • widest gap34th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread53th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 82 of each

171times
1270times
1890times
1984times
29

Prize breakdown · 2014-03-22

  • Lines in play≈ 2.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.3Mto 211k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.31

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£294.1K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29%£370.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£255.0K
  • 5 other tiers27%£344.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.31 by chance

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87times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 46 of each

1444times

Every number was expected about that many times after 642 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 4 of 5 numbers (12, 18, 19, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 6 July 2012 — its closest relative in 642 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 17% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 March 2014): 18 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

79

The numbers add up to 79 — the 19th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 18–19. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

19 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 1.9× 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≈ 4.0 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43≈ 52 by chance£250
  • Match 4905≈ 675 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,855≈ 1.7k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,655≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 329,406≈ 22k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball74,166≈ 71k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball84,991≈ 85k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 905 winners, 34% more than the 675 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 Ball84,991£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball74,166£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,655£10.00
    Match 329,406£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,855£20.00
    Match 4905£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000