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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 15 January 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 8
  2. 12
  3. 14
  4. 16
  5. 39
  6. 14

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 1,656 of 3,064 under them

← 2020-01-14All recent draws2020-01-17 →

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 feed8 12 14 16 39 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 15 January 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

38oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 38 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 19% of every possible ticket.

  • sum33th
  • odd9th
  • low89th
  • widest gap96th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread70th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 212 of each

8201times
12187times
14185times
16223times
39

Prize breakdown · 2020-01-15

  • Lines in play≈ 1.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£614.1Kto 108k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.16

Where the money went

  • Match 319%£116.7K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball32%£198.1K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball22%£133.9K
  • 5 other tiers27%£165.4K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.16 by chance

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196times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 118 of each

14121times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,655 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 (8, 12, 14, 16) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 27 July 2016 — its closest relative in 1,655 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 39% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (14 January 2020): nothing carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

89

The numbers add up to 89 — the 32th 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

12 had not appeared for 27 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 1.0× 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 51≈ 2.1 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22≈ 27 by chance£250
  • Match 4306≈ 354 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball935≈ 900 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,563≈ 9.6k by chance£10.00
  • Match 311,669≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball39,624≈ 37k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball44,619≈ 45k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.3M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 2 plus Bonus Ball — 10,563 winners, 10% more than the 9.6k 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 Ball44,619£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball39,624£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball10,563£10.00
    Match 311,669£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball935£20.00
    Match 4306£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball22£250
    Match 51£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000