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Thunderball · draw

Saturday, 4 January 2025

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 11
  3. 14
  4. 17
  5. 35
  6. 8

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 2,694 of 3,063 under them

← 2025-01-03All recent draws2025-01-07 →

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 feed5 11 14 17 35 + 829 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 4 January 2025 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

41oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 41 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 25% of every possible ticket.

  • sum23th
  • odd89th
  • low89th
  • widest gap84th
  • neighbours28th
  • spread65th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 345 of each

5339times
11350times
14316times
17333times
35

Prize breakdown · 2025-01-04

  • Lines in play≈ 2.0Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£1.5Mto 164k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 12lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1 winnerchance said 0.25

Where the money went

  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball34%£500.0K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball20%£295.3K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball14%£207.9K
  • 6 other tiers31%£451.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1≈ 0.25 by chance

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318times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 192 of each

8195times

Every number was expected about that many times after 2,693 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 (5, 14, 35) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 31 March 2023 — its closest relative in 2,693 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (3 January 2025): 35 carried over. Chance says 52% of draws repeat at least one number. Stars: none repeated (7% expected).

Carry-over / Déjà Vu →

Sum and shape

82

The numbers add up to 82 — the 22th 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

14 had not appeared for 29 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 53≈ 3.2 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43≈ 42 by chance£250
  • Match 4571≈ 550 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,549≈ 1.4k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,752≈ 15k by chance£10.00
  • Match 317,989≈ 18k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball59,057≈ 58k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball69,306≈ 69k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.0M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 3 plus Bonus Ball — 1,549 winners, 11% more than the 1.4k 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 Ball69,306£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball59,057£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball15,752£10.00
    Match 317,989£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,549£20.00
    Match 4571£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball43£250
    Match 53£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball1£500,000