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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 7
  2. 17
  3. 21
  4. 27
  5. 36
  6. 14

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 37% 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 2,492 of 3,063 under them

← 2024-01-16All recent draws2024-01-19 →

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 feed7 17 21 27 36 + 1429 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 17 January 2024 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

58oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 58 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 68% of every possible ticket.

  • sum63th
  • odd89th
  • low31th
  • widest gap26th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread59th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 319 of each

7330times
17300times
21326times
27314times
36

Prize breakdown · 2024-01-17

  • Lines in play≈ 1.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£582.5Kto 93k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.14

Where the money went

  • Match 323%£135.5K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball27%£159.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball19%£113.5K
  • 5 other tiers30%£174.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.14 by chance

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301times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 178 of each

14181times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,491 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 (7, 27, 36) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 5 August 2022 — its closest relative in 2,491 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (16 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

108

The numbers add up to 108 — the 62th 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

21 had not appeared for 28 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 53≈ 1.8 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball30≈ 23 by chance£250
  • Match 4484≈ 300 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball863≈ 763 by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,605≈ 8.1k by chance£10.00
  • Match 313,548≈ 9.9k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31,868≈ 32k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball37,834≈ 38k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈1.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 — 13,548 winners, 37% more than the 9.9k 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 Ball37,834£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball31,868£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball8,605£10.00
    Match 313,548£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball863£20.00
    Match 4484£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball30£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000