LotteryOracle
GamesForecastPlaygroundCase filesMy numbers

Loading…

Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.

LotteryOracle

LotteryOracle reports what happened; it does not predict what is next. Every draw is independent — no number is ever "due".

GamesPlaygroundCase filesThe weekDataAboutMethodologyPrivacy
Built byejoyful

Responsible play.A lottery costs more than it pays back; if it stops being fun, help is free and confidential:🇬🇧 0808 8020 133all helplines →

Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 2
  2. 17
  3. 27
  4. 31
  5. 32
  6. 8

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 13% 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 458 of 3,062 under them

← 2013-01-12All recent draws2013-01-18 →

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 feed2 17 27 31 32 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 January 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

65oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 65 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 87% of every possible ticket.

  • sum64th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap67th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread65th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 59 of each

262times
1765times
2756times
3168times
32

Prize breakdown · 2013-01-16

  • Lines in play≈ 2.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£968.4Kto 172k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.27

Where the money went

  • Match 318%£172.1K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32%£306.0K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball23%£226.9K
  • 5 other tiers27%£263.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.27 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

75times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 33 of each

843times

Every number was expected about that many times after 457 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, 17, 32) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 2 January 2013 — its closest relative in 457 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 99% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (12 January 2013): 31 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

109

The numbers add up to 109 — the 64th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 31–32. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

2 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 0.9× 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 53≈ 3.5 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43≈ 46 by chance£250
  • Match 4470≈ 601 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,528≈ 1.5k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,007≈ 16k by chance£10.00
  • Match 317,208≈ 20k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball61,206≈ 63k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball75,630≈ 76k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 470 winners, 22% fewer than the 601 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball75,630£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball61,206£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball16,007£10.00
    Match 317,208£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,528£20.00
    Match 4470£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000