The Thunderball odds calculator works out your chance of every result in the UK’s fixed-top-prize game. Pick 5 numbers from 39 and a Thunderball from 14. All five plus the Thunderball is 1 in 8,060,598, and the top prize is a fixed £500,000 that isn’t shared. You can also win something with no main numbers at all, just the Thunderball, which is about a 1 in 29 shot. The free calculator above covers every match, lines and draws.
Thunderball odds for every match
Exact odds per line. The Thunderball has its own drum, so you either have it (1 in 14) or you don’t (13 in 14).
| Match | Odds per line |
|---|---|
| 5 + Thunderball | 1 in 8,060,598 |
| 5 | 1 in 620,046 |
| 4 + Thunderball | 1 in 47,415 |
| 4 | 1 in 3,647 |
| 3 + Thunderball | 1 in 1,437 |
| 3 | 1 in 111 |
| 2 + Thunderball | 1 in 135 |
| 2 | 1 in 10.4 |
| 1 + Thunderball | 1 in 34.8 |
| 1 | 1 in 2.7 |
| 0 + Thunderball | 1 in 29.0 |
| 0 | 1 in 2.2 |
Notice that 0 + Thunderball is more likely than 1 + Thunderball. Matching none of the five is actually more likely than matching one, because there are 34 losing numbers in the drum and only 5 winners.
Why people call Thunderball the best odds in the UK
For a six-figure prize, it is. 1 in 8 million beats Lotto (1 in 22.5 million per two-round line) and EuroMillions (1 in 140 million) by a long way, and you don’t share the £500,000 with anyone. The trade-off is that it never rolls over into a giant jackpot.
Play every Thunderball draw for a year (about four a week) with one line and your chance of the top prize is about 1 in 39,000. Ten lines a draw makes that about 1 in 3,900, for ten times the cost.
The Thunderball number generator picks lines for you, and the lottery odds calculator covers every other UK game.
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