UK National Lottery Thunderball #3898

Winning numbers drawn at 8.00pm BST on Tuesday 5th May 2026 - video:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
5+T/ball      £500,000           0            £0       0.0%
5               £5,000           0            £0       0.0%
4+T/ball          £250          16        £4,000       0.9%
4                 £100         193       £19,300       4.4%
3+T/ball           £20         538       £10,760       2.5%
3                  £10       6,976       £69,760      15.9%
2+T/ball           £10       6,947       £69,470      15.8%
1+T/ball            £5      29,937      £149,685      34.1%
  T/ball            £3      38,558      £115,674      26.4%
Totals                      83,165      £438,649     100.0%

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 6 balls.

                    Updated Frequencies       Since Last Appeared
Drawn   Order      Main   T/ball   Total    Main   T/ball    Either
1st       21       384       0      384      21      2934       21 
2nd       37       350       0      350       3      2934        3 
3rd       02       369     190      559       9        8        8 
4th       01       372     205      577       3       17        3 
5th       33       377       0      377       7      2934        7 
T/ball    09       349     182      531       9       31        9 
Total    103      2201     577     2778      52     8858       51
Avg.      17.2     366.8    96.2    463.0     8.7   1476.3      8.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 5 machine
• The average prize was £ 5.27.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 122 wins totalling £835.
• From Saturday 12th July 2003 onwards, Camelot has completely refused to issue per-draw sales figures for any of their individual games, despite continuously doing so for more than 8 years prior to that date. They blamed the media for only concentrating on the main Lotto game sales (which have been falling steadily for years), which seems to be a poor excuse to me.
• Prizes won in this draw must be claimed within 180 days i.e. by 5.30pm GMT on Sunday 1st November 2026.

  Next Thunderball: #3899 (Wednesday 6th May 2026) [No jackpot winners]
  Previous Thunderball: #3897 (Saturday 2nd May 2026) [No jackpot winners]

  

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