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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 1 January 2022

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 4
  2. 6
  3. 8
  4. 10
  5. 18
  6. 7

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 2,066 of 3,064 under them

← 2021-12-31All recent draws2022-01-04 →

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 6 8 10 18 + 729 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 1 January 2022 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

16oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 16 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 1% of every possible ticket.

  • sum1th
  • odd1th
  • low99th
  • widest gap12th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread4th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 265 of each

4280times
6287times
8252times
10279times
18

Prize breakdown · 2022-01-01

  • Lines in play≈ 2.5Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.2Mto 204k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.31

Where the money went

  • Match 318%£223.3K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball29%£364.9K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball21%£256.5K
  • 5 other tiers32%£395.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.31 by chance

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284times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 148 of each

7142times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,065 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, 6, 10, 18) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 24 April 2010 — its closest relative in 2,065 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 46% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (31 December 2021): 6 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

46

The numbers add up to 46 — the 1th 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

8 had not appeared for 15 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 2.6× 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 57≈ 4.0 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball93≈ 52 by chance£250
  • Match 4942≈ 679 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,041≈ 1.7k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,264≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 322,329≈ 22k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball72,977≈ 71k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball85,506≈ 86k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.5M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 942 winners, 39% more than the 679 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 Ball85,506£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball72,977£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball20,264£10.00
    Match 322,329£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball2,041£20.00
    Match 4942£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball93£250
    Match 57£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000