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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 14 January 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 16
  3. 17
  4. 32
  5. 33
  6. 4

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 301 of 3,062 under them

← 2012-01-13All recent draws2012-01-18 →

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 feed4 16 17 32 33 + 429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 14 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

64oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 64 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 84% of every possible ticket.

  • sum53th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours96th
  • spread59th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 38 of each

440times
1637times
1741times
3246times
33

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-14

  • Lines in play≈ 3.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£2.9Mto 249k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3 winnerschance said 0.37

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball51%£1.5M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball16%£453.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball11%£309.1K
  • 5 other tiers23%£658.2K
Tier1101001k10k100k1MWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3≈ 0.37 by chance

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33times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 21 of each

422times

Every number was expected about that many times after 300 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 (4, 17, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 3 December 2011 — its closest relative in 300 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (13 January 2012): 17 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

102

The numbers add up to 102 — the 52th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 16–17, 32–33. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

33 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 0.6× 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≈ 4.8 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball71≈ 63 by chance£250
  • Match 4701≈ 818 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,682≈ 2.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball25,142≈ 22k by chance£10.00
  • Match 326,530≈ 27k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball90,751≈ 86k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball103,017≈ 103k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈3.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 2,682 winners, 29% more than the 2.1k 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 Ball103,017£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball90,751£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball25,142£10.00
    Match 326,530£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,682£20.00
    Match 4701£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball71£250
    Match 50£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3£500,000