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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 21
  2. 22
  3. 24
  4. 28
  5. 31
  6. 2

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 32% 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 464 of 3,064 under them

← 2013-01-26All recent draws2013-02-01 →

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 feed21 22 24 28 31 + 229 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 30 January 2013 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

25oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 25 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 5% of every possible ticket.

  • sum86th
  • odd31th
  • low1th
  • widest gap1th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread1th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 59 of each

2170times
2250times
2462times
2872times
31

Prize breakdown · 2013-01-30

  • Lines in play≈ 1.4Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.2Mto 122k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.18

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball40%£500.0K
  • Match 314%£172.2K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball17%£213.6K
  • 6 other tiers29%£360.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.18 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

69times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 33 of each

226times

Every number was expected about that many times after 463 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 4 of 5 numbers (21, 22, 24, 28) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 16 July 2011 — its closest relative in 463 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 13% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (26 January 2013): 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

126

The numbers add up to 126 — the 85th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 21–22. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

28 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 1.6× 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 55≈ 2.3 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22≈ 30 by chance£250
  • Match 4491≈ 395 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,080≈ 1.0k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,062≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 317,223≈ 13k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball42,724≈ 41k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball49,680≈ 50k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.4M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 17,223 winners, 32% more than the 13k 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 Ball49,680£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball42,724£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,062£10.00
    Match 317,223£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,080£20.00
    Match 4491£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22£250
    Match 55£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000