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Thunderball · draw

Tuesday, 4 March 2025

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 17
  2. 25
  3. 28
  4. 34
  5. 38
  6. 1

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 11% 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 2,727 of 3,064 under them

← 2025-03-01All recent draws2025-03-05 →

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 feed17 25 28 34 38 + 129 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 March 2025 — 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.

  • sum96th
  • odd31th
  • low9th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread20th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 349 of each

17338times
25336times
28356times
34361times
38

Prize breakdown · 2025-03-04

  • Lines in play≈ 870kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 69k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2 winnerschance said 0.11

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball72%£1.0M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball8.4%£117.6K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball6.5%£90.1K
  • 5 other tiers13%£188.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2≈ 0.11 by chance

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346times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 195 of each

1196times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,726 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 (17, 25, 28, 38) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 4 May 2012 — its closest relative in 2,726 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 56% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (1 March 2025): 17, 28 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: 1 repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

142

The numbers add up to 142 — the 96th 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

34 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 50≈ 1.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18≈ 18 by chance£250
  • Match 4270≈ 238 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball524≈ 605 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball5,859≈ 6.5k by chance£10.00
  • Match 38,742≈ 7.9k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball23,529≈ 25k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball30,019≈ 30k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈870k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 524 winners, 13% fewer than the 605 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 Ball30,019£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball23,529£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball5,859£10.00
    Match 38,742£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball524£20.00
    Match 4270£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball18£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball2£500,000