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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 20 January 2012

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 9
  3. 11
  4. 20
  5. 24
  6. 2

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 61% 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 303 of 3,063 under them

← 2012-01-18All recent draws2012-01-21 →

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 feed2 9 11 20 24 + 229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 20 January 2012 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

40oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 40 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 23% of every possible ticket.

  • sum8th
  • odd31th
  • low89th
  • widest gap18th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread24th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 39 of each

237times
939times
1140times
2043times
24

Prize breakdown · 2012-01-20

  • Lines in play≈ 876kas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£540.6Kto 82k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 11lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.11

Where the money went

  • Match 324%£127.9K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball26%£142.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball17%£90.8K
  • 5 other tiers33%£179.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.11 by chance

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44times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 22 of each

217times

Every number was expected about that many times after 302 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 (11, 20, 24) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 15 January 2011 — its closest relative in 302 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 95% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (18 January 2012): 2 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

66

The numbers add up to 66 — the 8th 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

20 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 2.4× 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.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 54≈ 1.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball47≈ 18 by chance£250
  • Match 4426≈ 240 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball949≈ 610 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,562≈ 6.5k by chance£10.00
  • Match 312,792≈ 7.9k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,586≈ 25k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball30,256≈ 30k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈876k lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 12,792 winners, 61% more than the 7.9k 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 Ball30,256£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball28,586£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,562£10.00
    Match 312,792£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball949£20.00
    Match 4426£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball47£250
    Match 54£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000