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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 12 January 2019

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 25
  3. 31
  4. 36
  5. 39
  6. 4

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 25% 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 1,446 of 3,063 under them

← 2019-01-11All recent draws2019-01-15 →

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 feed4 25 31 36 39 + 429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 12 January 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

32oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 32 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 11% of every possible ticket.

  • sum93th
  • odd64th
  • low9th
  • widest gap93th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread91th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 185 of each

4199times
25182times
31210times
36170times
39

Prize breakdown · 2019-01-12

  • Lines in play≈ 2.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.1Mto 203k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.32

Where the money went

  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball17%£187.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£374.6K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball24%£270.3K
  • 5 other tiers26%£296.7K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.32 by chance

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169times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 103 of each

4111times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,445 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 (4, 31, 36, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 10 October 2015 — its closest relative in 1,445 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 35% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (11 January 2019): 36 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

135

The numbers add up to 135 — the 92th 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

39 had not appeared for 23 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 0.6× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 3% of the jackpot.

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

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 56≈ 4.2 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball46≈ 55 by chance£250
  • Match 4462≈ 716 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,641≈ 1.8k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,698≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 317,619≈ 24k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball74,925≈ 75k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball90,099≈ 90k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 462 winners, 35% fewer than the 716 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 Ball90,099£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball74,925£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball18,698£10.00
    Match 317,619£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,641£20.00
    Match 4462£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball46£250
    Match 56£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000