LotteryOracle
GamesForecastPlaygroundCase filesMy numbers

Loading…

Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.

LotteryOracle

LotteryOracle reports what happened; it does not predict what is next. Every draw is independent — no number is ever "due".

GamesPlaygroundCase filesThe weekDataAboutMethodologyPrivacy
Built byejoyful

Responsible play.A lottery costs more than it pays back; if it stops being fun, help is free and confidential:🇬🇧 0808 8020 133all helplines →

Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 3 January 2024

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 16
  4. 29
  5. 32
  6. 3

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 14% 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 2,484 of 3,064 under them

← 2024-01-02All recent draws2024-01-05 →

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 feed1 2 16 29 32 + 329 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 3 January 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

61oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 61 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 77% of every possible ticket.

  • sum21th
  • odd31th
  • low64th
  • widest gap60th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread70th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 318 of each

1317times
2315times
16318times
29335times
32

Prize breakdown · 2024-01-03

  • Lines in play≈ 1.3Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£595.6Kto 104k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 13lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.17

Where the money went

  • Match 318%£104.8K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31%£184.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball23%£139.4K
  • 5 other tiers28%£166.9K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.17 by chance

Play these numbers? Read them as your ticket →

334times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 177 of each

3202times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,483 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 (1, 2, 29, 32) and 1 of 1 stars with the draw of 20 December 2014 — its closest relative in 2,483 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 52% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (2 January 2024): 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

80

The numbers add up to 80 — the 20th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 1–2. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

32 had not appeared for 16 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 0.9× 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 56≈ 2.2 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19≈ 28 by chance£250
  • Match 4285≈ 369 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball819≈ 937 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,730≈ 10.0k by chance£10.00
  • Match 310,475≈ 12k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball36,905≈ 39k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball46,467≈ 46k 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 3 — 10,475 winners, 14% fewer than the 12k an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were a little less popular than average — that is the crowd, not the machine.

    Show the published table
    MatchWinnersPrize each
    Match 0 plus Bonus Ball46,467£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball36,905£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,730£10.00
    Match 310,475£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball819£20.00
    Match 4285£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball19£250
    Match 56£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000