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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 6
  2. 12
  3. 23
  4. 29
  5. 30
  6. 8

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld about as often as 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 1,448 of 3,063 under them

← 2019-01-15All recent draws2019-01-18 →

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 feed6 12 23 29 30 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 16 January 2019 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

68oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 68 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 93% of every possible ticket.

  • sum50th
  • odd31th
  • low31th
  • widest gap34th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread33th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 186 of each

6197times
12157times
23184times
29189times
30

Prize breakdown · 2019-01-16

  • Lines in play≈ 1.6Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£780.6Kto 135k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.20

Where the money went

  • Match 319%£146.9K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31%£243.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball22%£169.4K
  • 5 other tiers28%£220.8K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.20 by chance

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213times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 103 of each

8107times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,447 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 (23, 29, 30) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 May 2018 — its closest relative in 1,447 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (15 January 2019): 30 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

100

The numbers add up to 100 — the 49th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 29–30. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

29 had not appeared for 12 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 2.0× 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≈ 2.6 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43≈ 35 by chance£250
  • Match 4439≈ 449 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,259≈ 1.1k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,098≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 314,687≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball48,704≈ 47k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball56,481≈ 56k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.6M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,259 winners, 11% more than the 1.1k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little more popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball56,481£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball48,704£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball13,098£10.00
    Match 314,687£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,259£20.00
    Match 4439£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000