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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 22 January 2020

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 3
  2. 5
  3. 11
  4. 19
  5. 33
  6. 7

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 8% more 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 1,660 of 3,064 under them

← 2020-01-21All recent draws2020-01-24 →

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 feed3 5 11 19 33 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 22 January 2020 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

42oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 42 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 27% of every possible ticket.

  • sum12th
  • odd99th
  • low89th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread65th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 213 of each

3211times
5194times
11190times
19221times
33

Prize breakdown · 2020-01-22

  • Lines in play≈ 1.7Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£2.4Mto 143k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3 winnerschance said 0.21

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball63%£1.5M
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball11%£259.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball7.2%£172.0K
  • 6 other tiers19%£451.0K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3≈ 0.21 by chance

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207times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 119 of each

7108times

Every number was expected about that many times after 1,659 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 (3, 11, 19) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 27 September 2019 — its closest relative in 1,659 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (21 January 2020): 5 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

71

The numbers add up to 71 — the 11th 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

33 had not appeared for 14 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 1.1× 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≈ 2.7 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball76≈ 35 by chance£250
  • Match 4593≈ 455 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,831≈ 1.2k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,446≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 316,166≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball51,893≈ 48k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball57,345≈ 57k 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 plus Bonus Ball — 1,831 winners, 58% more than the 1.2k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably more 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 Ball57,345£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball51,893£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,446£10.00
    Match 316,166£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,831£20.00
    Match 4593£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball76£250
    Match 54£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball3£500,000