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Thunderball · draw

Wednesday, 29 January 2014

ResultThunderball

Single source
  1. 5
  2. 27
  3. 36
  4. 38
  5. 39
  6. 9

Jackpot£500,000

The crowdHeld 38% 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 620 of 3,068 under them

← 2014-01-25All recent draws2014-01-31 →

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 27 36 38 39 + 929 Aug 2026, 09:27 UTC

This draw, read by every tool

What the site’s explorations say about the numbers drawn on 29 January 2014 — each beside what chance predicted. None of it says anything about the next draw.

31oddordinary

How ordinary this draw is

Scored 31 of 100 across six shape features — more typical than about 10% of every possible ticket.

  • sum97th
  • odd64th
  • low9th
  • widest gap95th
  • neighbours75th
  • spread86th
Draw Fingerprints →

Each number, as it stood before this draw

Times drawn before — chance expected 79 of each

570times
2773times
3666times
3878times
39

Prize breakdown · 2014-01-29

  • Lines in play≈ 2.1Mas the winner counts imply
  • Paid out£782.3Kto 150k winning lines
  • Won something1 in 14lines took a prize
  • Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0 winnerschance said 0.26

Where the money went

  • Match 315%£118.8K
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball33%£258.5K
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball28%£218.8K
  • 5 other tiers24%£186.2K
Tier1101001k10k100kWinners1101001k10k100k1MPrize each
  1. Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0≈ 0.26 by chance

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78times
Stars · a separate 1-of-14 machine

Times drawn before — chance expected 44 of each

929times

Every number was expected about that many times after 619 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, 38, 39) and 0 of 1 stars with the draw of 18 January 2014 — its closest relative in 619 draws. Chance gave a match this close a 100% likelihood somewhere in that history.

From the draw just before (25 January 2014): 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

145

The numbers add up to 145 — the 97th percentile of all possible tickets, around a middle of 100. Side-by-side numbers: 38–39. 44% of draws have at least one such pair.

Sum Distribution →

The longest wait in this draw

27 had not appeared for 20 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 0.4× as often as an average ticket — less popular than most. At 30 million tickets sold, a winner on these numbers would keep about 4% of the jackpot.

Illustrative model, calibrated to published studies — not live sales.

The Unpopular Numbers Edge →
£500,000
  • Match 52≈ 3.4 by chance£5,000
  • Match 4 plus Bonus Ball25≈ 45 by chance£250
  • Match 4335≈ 579 by chance£100
  • Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,009≈ 1.5k by chance£20.00
  • Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,624≈ 16k by chance£10.00
  • Match 311,878≈ 19k by chance£10.00
  • Match 1 plus Bonus Ball51,702≈ 61k by chance£5.00
  • Match 0 plus Bonus Ball72,940≈ 73k by chance£3.00
    • Winners, log scale
    • Prize each, log scale
    • Where chance put the count

    The rings take the ≈2.1M lines the counts imply and assume an evenly spread crowd. Furthest from that: Match 4 — 335 winners, 42% fewer than the 579 an even spread gives. The numbers drawn were noticeably less 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 Ball72,940£3.00
    Match 1 plus Bonus Ball51,702£5.00
    Match 2 plus Bonus Ball11,624£10.00
    Match 311,878£10.00
    Match 3 plus Bonus Ball1,009£20.00
    Match 4335£100
    Match 4 plus Bonus Ball25£250
    Match 52£5,000
    Match 5 plus Bonus Ball0£500,000