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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 11
  3. 16
  4. 25
  5. 37
  6. 7

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 29% 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 1,244 of 3,062 under them

← 2018-01-20All recent draws2018-01-26 →

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 feed1 11 16 25 37 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 24 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

52oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 52 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 51% of every possible ticket.

  • sum34th
  • odd89th
  • low64th
  • widest gap43th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread94th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 159 of each

1156times
11138times
16165times
25158times
37

Prize breakdown · 2018-01-24

  • Lines in play≈ 2.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£882.7Kto 161k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.26

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17%£146.9K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£294.8K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball24%£216.2K
  • 5 other tiers25%£224.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.26 by chance

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136times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 89 of each

775times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,243 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 (16, 25, 37) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 March 2017 — its closest relative in 1,243 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (20 January 2018): 16 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

90

The numbers add up to 90 — the 33th 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

11 had not appeared for 16 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 54≈ 3.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball39≈ 44 by chance£250
  • Match 4359≈ 572 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,285≈ 1.5k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,688≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 313,341≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball58,969≈ 60k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball72,068≈ 72k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 359 winners, 37% fewer than the 572 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 Ball72,068£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball58,969£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball14,688£10.00
    Match 313,341£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,285£20.00
    Match 4359£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball39£250
    Match 54£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000