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Thunderball · draw

Friday, 5 January 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 8
  3. 17
  4. 22
  5. 23
  6. 10

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 29% 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 1,236 of 3,062 under them

← 2018-01-03All recent draws2018-01-06 →

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 feed3 8 17 22 23 + 1029 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 5 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

48oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 48 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 41% of every possible ticket.

  • sum13th
  • odd64th
  • low64th
  • widest gap18th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread17th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 158 of each

3156times
8153times
17162times
22170times
23

Prize breakdown · 2018-01-05

  • Lines in play≈ 1.2Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£612.6Kto 102k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.15

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£138.4K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29%£179.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball20%£122.3K
  • 5 other tiers28%£172.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.15 by chance

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162times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 88 of each

1089times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,235 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 (3, 8, 22) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 27 November 2015 — its closest relative in 1,235 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 January 2018): 23 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

73

The numbers add up to 73 — the 13th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 22–23. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

22 had not appeared for 15 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 2.3× 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 52≈ 1.9 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball32≈ 25 by chance£250
  • Match 4381≈ 324 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball965≈ 822 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,738≈ 8.8k by chance£10.00
  • Match 313,836≈ 11k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35,822≈ 34k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball40,778≈ 41k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.2M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 13,836 winners, 29% more than the 11k 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 Ball40,778£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball35,822£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball9,738£10.00
    Match 313,836£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball965£20.00
    Match 4381£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball32£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000