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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 17
  3. 32
  4. 34
  5. 38
  6. 6

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 28% less 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 452 of 3,063 under them

← 2012-12-29All recent draws2013-01-04 →

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 17 32 34 38 + 629 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 2 January 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

41oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.

  • sum83th
  • odd9th
  • low31th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread94th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 58 of each

261times
1763times
3274times
3456times
38

Prize breakdown · 2013-01-02

  • Lines in play≈ 2.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£764.5Kto 144k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.25

Where the money went

  • Match 317%£128.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£252.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball27%£204.7K
  • 5 other tiers23%£179.3K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.25 by chance

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50times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 32 of each

631times

Every number was expected about that many times after 451 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 (2, 34, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 October 2012 — its closest relative in 451 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (29 December 2012): 38 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. No two numbers side by side. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

17 had not appeared for 6 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 51≈ 3.2 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball35≈ 42 by chance£250
  • Match 4325≈ 542 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball967≈ 1.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,373≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 312,848≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball50,402≈ 57k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball68,229≈ 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 4 — 325 winners, 40% fewer than the 542 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 Ball68,229£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball50,402£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,373£10.00
    Match 312,848£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball967£20.00
    Match 4325£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball35£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000