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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 28 March 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 11
  3. 19
  4. 20
  5. 37
  6. 8

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 26% 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 1,280 of 3,062 under them

← 2018-03-27All recent draws2018-03-30 →

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 11 19 20 37 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 28 March 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

35oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 35 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 15% of every possible ticket.

  • sum31th
  • odd89th
  • low89th
  • widest gap79th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread94th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 164 of each

1160times
11143times
19178times
20171times
37

Prize breakdown · 2018-03-28

  • Lines in play≈ 2.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£847.8Kto 156k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.25

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17%£146.3K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball34%£284.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball25%£207.9K
  • 5 other tiers25%£209.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.25 by chance

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145times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 91 of each

895times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,279 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 (1, 11, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 January 2018 — its closest relative in 1,279 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (27 March 2018): 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

88

The numbers add up to 88 — the 30th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 19–20. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

1 had not appeared for 19 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 1.0× as often as an average ticket — about as popular as most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 2% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 51≈ 3.2 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball32≈ 42 by chance£250
  • Match 4351≈ 550 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,352≈ 1.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,634≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 313,416≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball56,855≈ 58k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball69,306≈ 69k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 351 winners, 36% fewer than the 550 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 Ball69,306£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball56,855£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,634£10.00
    Match 313,416£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,352£20.00
    Match 4351£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball32£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000