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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 1 April 2017

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 9
  3. 22
  4. 23
  5. 29
  6. 3

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 19% 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 1,117 of 3,062 under them

← 2017-03-31All recent draws2017-04-05 →

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 feed2 9 22 23 29 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 1 April 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

72oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 72 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 97% of every possible ticket.

  • sum27th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap51th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread48th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 143 of each

2153times
9131times
22154times
23149times
29

Prize breakdown · 2017-04-01

  • Lines in play≈ 2.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.3Mto 214k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.31

Where the money went

  • Match 321%£269.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30%£384.2K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£259.7K
  • 5 other tiers30%£385.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.31 by chance

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150times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 80 of each

394times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,116 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 (2, 23, 29) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 7 January 2017 — its closest relative in 1,116 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (31 March 2017): 22 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

85

The numbers add up to 85 — the 26th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 22–23. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

29 had not appeared for 14 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 2.1× 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 57≈ 4.0 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball65≈ 53 by chance£250
  • Match 4900≈ 688 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,913≈ 1.7k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,578≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 326,948≈ 23k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball76,833≈ 72k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball86,564≈ 87k 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 — 900 winners, 31% more than the 688 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 Ball86,564£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball76,833£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,578£10.00
    Match 326,948£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,913£20.00
    Match 4900£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball65£250
    Match 57£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000