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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 12 March 2016

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 9
  3. 15
  4. 23
  5. 27
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 14% 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 952 of 3,062 under them

← 2016-03-11All recent draws2016-03-16 →

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 9 15 23 27 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 March 2016 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 27% of every possible ticket.

  • sum17th
  • odd99th
  • low64th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread33th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 122 of each

3122times
9117times
15118times
23122times
27

Prize breakdown · 2016-03-12

  • Lines in play≈ 3.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£2.2Mto 278k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.40

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball23%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball23%£504.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball15%£329.9K
  • 6 other tiers40%£887.3K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.40 by chance

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120times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 68 of each

575times

Every number was expected about that many times after 951 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 (9, 15, 27) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 25 September 2015 — its closest relative in 951 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 March 2016): 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

77

The numbers add up to 77 — the 17th 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

3 had not appeared for 24 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 2.3× 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 54≈ 5.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball144≈ 67 by chance£250
  • Match 41,366≈ 873 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball3,458≈ 2.2k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball29,704≈ 24k by chance£10.00
  • Match 332,851≈ 29k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball100,966≈ 92k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball109,977≈ 110k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈3.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 1,366 winners, 56% more than the 873 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 Ball109,977£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball100,966£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball29,704£10.00
    Match 332,851£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball3,458£20.00
    Match 41,366£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball144£250
    Match 54£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000