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Thunderball · draw

Tuesday, 3 March 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 8
  3. 20
  4. 35
  5. 38
  6. 5

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 21% 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 1,683 of 3,063 under them

← 2020-02-29All recent draws2020-03-04 →

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 8 20 35 38 + 529 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 March 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

62oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 62 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 80% of every possible ticket.

  • sum60th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread81th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 216 of each

5199times
8207times
20229times
35188times
38

Prize breakdown · 2020-03-03

  • Lines in play≈ 1.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£485.4Kto 84k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.13

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17%£80.1K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31%£151.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball23%£111.3K
  • 5 other tiers29%£142.5K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.13 by chance

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207times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 120 of each

5125times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,682 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, 8, 20, 38) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 28 February 2020 — its closest relative in 1,682 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 39% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 February 2020): 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

106

The numbers add up to 106 — the 59th 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

35 had not appeared for 13 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 0.8× as often as an average ticket — less 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 53≈ 1.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball48≈ 23 by chance£250
  • Match 4244≈ 295 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball726≈ 748 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,012≈ 8.0k by chance£10.00
  • Match 37,656≈ 9.7k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30,300≈ 31k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball37,088≈ 37k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 7,656 winners, 21% fewer than the 9.7k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball37,088£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball30,300£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,012£10.00
    Match 37,656£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball726£20.00
    Match 4244£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball48£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000