How to play ThunderBall?
To play Thunderball you need to select five numbers from 1 to 39 and one ThunderBall from 1 to 14.
What do we offer?
- The Analyst, our Artificial Intelligence tool, removes the majority of the numbers with the least likelihood of being selected. With the power of mathematics, The Analyst then compares its results to previous extractions.
- Our Analyst will therefore allow you a 99% chance of winning a prize when all balls are matched correctly.
- Due to the high power we have allocated to The Analyst, it only takes about fifteen seconds for the tool to calculate a new set of numbers, giving you a minimum of twenty hours to play any lottery ticket you wish to purchase
- After the extraction, The Analyst calculates how much money you could have potentially won, this corresponding to the degree of accuracy the system has achieved.
- Thanks to The Analyst, we can enable you a chance to consistently win big to small prizes. For past extractions, visit this page.
- Our in-house Astrologer believes that the alignment of Stars and Planets affects everyone's day in a way or another, let that be their environment or personality, depending on when they were born.
- Your birth date, daily horoscope and lucky sign will be accounted for when our In-house Astrologer hand-picks lucky numbers and discards the least likely to create a unique combination customised entirely around you.
- This ensures you AND ONLY YOU the highest chance of winning with your star sign.
The Analyst works!
As displayed in the graph, our system The Analyst matched a prize most of the times for this lottery from July 2020. We firmly believe that it will therefore allow you a 99% chance of winning a prize!
Generated numbers for
Tue, 11 May 2021
Generated numbers for
Sat, 08 May 2021
Drawn numbers
Matched
2+0
Generated numbers for
Fri, 07 May 2021
Drawn numbers
Matched
3+0
Additional FAQs about Thunderball
Draws take place every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8.15pm UK time. Tickets can be bought until 30 minutes before the extraction.
Tickets are sold at £1 each.
Thunderball numbers are extracted from a different pool from the main numbers, so numbers can be repeated.
There are nine different tiers of prizes with different odds; each tier has a set prize for which the amount doesn’t change and prizes are not shared. The odds are as per the below:
| Match | Prize | Odds of Winning |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + Thunderball | £500,000* | 1 in 8,060,598 |
| 5 | £5,000 | 1 in 620,046 |
| 4 + Thunderball | £250 | 1 in 47,416 |
| 4 | £100 | 1 in 3,648 |
| 3 + Thunderball | £20 | 1 in 1,437 |
| 3 | £10 | 1 in 111 |
| 2 + Thunderball | £10 | 1 in 135 |
| 1 + Thunderball | £5 | 1 in 35 |
| Thunderball only | £3 | 1 in 29 |
The winnings are always fixed, with the jackpot at £500k. The winnings are only capped if payouts are four or five times greater than the total entries of that draw.
Only 1% of the profits are kept. 95% of the money goes to prizes and charities, while 4% goes to operating costs.
WARNING: Prizes must be claimed within 180 days or the ticket will then be considered invalid.Small prizes will be deposited to the registered account if playing online.
If winnings are over £50k, claim in person.
If you won over £30k, contact the National
Lottery.
Prizes up to £100 can be claimed with a retailer if a winning ticket is present.
For more information, visit the official website
https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/results/how-to-claim.
You must reside or be in the UK to play. Third-party websites buying tickets on your behalf do exist, should you be abroad.
