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Thunderball · draw

Tuesday, 3 April 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 7
  3. 10
  4. 17
  5. 34
  6. 13

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 27% 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 1,283 of 3,063 under them

← 2018-03-31All recent draws2018-04-04 →

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 feed5 7 10 17 34 + 1329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 April 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

50oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 50 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 44% of every possible ticket.

  • sum13th
  • odd64th
  • low89th
  • widest gap79th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread59th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 164 of each

5157times
7166times
10173times
17166times
34

Prize breakdown · 2018-04-03

  • Lines in play≈ 825kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£433.0Kto 71k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.10

Where the money went

  • Match 322%£95.1K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29%£124.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£85.5K
  • 5 other tiers30%£128.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.10 by chance

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160times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 92 of each

1390times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,282 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 (5, 7, 10, 34) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 1 July 2011 — its closest relative in 1,282 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 32% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (31 March 2018): 34 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

73

The numbers add up to 73 — the 13th 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

17 had not appeared for 21 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 1.3× as often as an average ticket — more popular than 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 52≈ 1.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19≈ 17 by chance£250
  • Match 4305≈ 226 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball684≈ 574 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball6,934≈ 6.1k by chance£10.00
  • Match 39,511≈ 7.5k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball24,826≈ 24k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball28,484≈ 28k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈825k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 9,511 winners, 27% more than the 7.5k 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 Ball28,484£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball24,826£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball6,934£10.00
    Match 39,511£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball684£20.00
    Match 4305£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000