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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 6 January 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 16
  3. 17
  4. 28
  5. 30
  6. 9

Jackpot£500,000

Top prizeNot wonnext draw advertised at

Rules5/39 + 1/14 · since Jan 2010draw 297 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-01-04All recent draws2012-01-07 →

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 feed8 16 17 28 30 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 6 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

59oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 59 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 70% of every possible ticket.

  • sum48th
  • odd9th
  • low64th
  • widest gap34th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread24th
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Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 38 of each

842times
1636times
1738times
2845times
30

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-06

  • Paid out£0.0to 0 winning lines
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winners£500.0K
Tier110Winners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000
  2. Match 50£5,000
  3. Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0£250
  4. Match 4

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42times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 21 of each

913times

Every number was expected about that many times after 296 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.

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Its nearest twin

Shares 3 of 5 numbers (17, 28, 30) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 29 April 2011 — its closest relative in 296 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (4 January 2012): 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

99

The numbers add up to 99 — the 48th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

30 had not appeared for 11 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 2.0× 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.

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£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0£10.00
  • Match 30£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball0£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball0£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball0£10.00
    Match 30£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball0£20.00
    Match 40£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball0£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000