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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 12 August 2017

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 5
  3. 7
  4. 16
  5. 31
  6. 13

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 30% 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 1,174 of 3,062 under them

← 2017-08-11All recent draws2017-08-16 →

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 feed4 5 7 16 31 + 1329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 August 2017 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

53oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 53 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 53% of every possible ticket.

  • sum6th
  • odd64th
  • low89th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread48th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 150 of each

4153times
5148times
7151times
16154times
31

Prize breakdown · 2017-08-12

  • Lines in play≈ 2.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.7Mto 197k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.28

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball30%£500.0K
  • Match 316%£266.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball21%£351.5K
  • 6 other tiers34%£574.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.28 by chance

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173times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 84 of each

1379times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,173 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 (5, 16, 31) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 15 April 2017 — its closest relative in 1,173 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 August 2017): 5 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

63

The numbers add up to 63 — the 6th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 4–5. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

31 had not appeared for 16 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 2.4× 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 56≈ 3.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball52≈ 48 by chance£250
  • Match 4698≈ 619 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,783≈ 1.6k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,243≈ 17k by chance£10.00
  • Match 326,652≈ 20k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball70,298≈ 65k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball77,934≈ 78k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 26,652 winners, 30% more than the 20k 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 Ball77,934£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball70,298£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball19,243£10.00
    Match 326,652£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,783£20.00
    Match 4698£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball52£250
    Match 56£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000