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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 9
  2. 19
  3. 28
  4. 29
  5. 38
  6. 6

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld about as often as 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 299 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-01-07All recent draws2012-01-13 →

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 feed9 19 28 29 38 + 629 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 11 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.

  • sum83th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread59th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 38 of each

937times
1943times
2846times
2936times
38

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-11

  • Lines in play≈ 2.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.4Mto 158k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.24

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball35%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball20%£281.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball14%£202.7K
  • 6 other tiers31%£434.5K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.24 by chance

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34times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 21 of each

623times

Every number was expected about that many times after 298 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 (28, 29, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 February 2011 — its closest relative in 298 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (7 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

123

The numbers add up to 123 — the 82th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 28–29. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

19 had not appeared for 16 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 0.9× 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 54≈ 3.2 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball46≈ 41 by chance£250
  • Match 4561≈ 537 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,249≈ 1.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,557≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 317,635≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball56,298≈ 56k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball67,579≈ 68k 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 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,249 winners, 8% fewer than the 1.4k an even spread gives. The real crowd and an even spread agreed closely on this draw.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball67,579£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball56,298£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,557£10.00
    Match 317,635£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,249£20.00
    Match 4561£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball46£250
    Match 54£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000