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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 13
  2. 18
  3. 23
  4. 37
  5. 38
  6. 4

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 27% 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 1,248 of 3,062 under them

← 2018-01-30All recent draws2018-02-02 →

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 feed13 18 23 37 38 + 429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 31 January 2018 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

61oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 76% of every possible ticket.

  • sum88th
  • odd64th
  • low31th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread38th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 160 of each

13160times
18172times
23164times
37137times
38

Prize breakdown · 2018-01-31

  • Lines in play≈ 1.7Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.2Mto 126k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.21

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball43%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball19%£220.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball15%£177.2K
  • 6 other tiers24%£277.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.21 by chance

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146times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 89 of each

499times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,247 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 (13, 18, 37, 38) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 22 January 2014 — its closest relative in 1,247 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 31% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (30 January 2018): 18 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

129

The numbers add up to 129 — the 88th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 37–38. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

38 had not appeared for 19 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 5% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 52≈ 2.8 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20≈ 36 by chance£250
  • Match 4293≈ 469 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball932≈ 1.2k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,159≈ 13k by chance£10.00
  • Match 311,265≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball44,059≈ 49k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball59,065≈ 59k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.7M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 11,265 winners, 27% fewer than the 15k 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 Ball59,065£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball44,059£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,159£10.00
    Match 311,265£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball932£20.00
    Match 4293£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball20£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000