Browse Thunderball results from the first draw in June 1999 to the latest completed draw. Search by year, date, number or draw day and see how the game’s archive changed when the main-number pool expanded in 2010.
The archive starts with the latest completed draw. For the current winner status, full prize breakdown, draw machine and ball set, use the dedicated Thunderball results and winners pages.
Friday 21 August 2026
84,571 winning tickets were recorded across the published prize tiers for this draw.
Open latest Thunderball results →Search the 2026 archive by date, number or draw number, or narrow the table by draw day and month. The red sixth ball is the Thunderball.
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The archive records historical draw results, not predictions. Main numbers are displayed in numerical order for easier comparison. Always validate a potentially winning ticket against The National Lottery’s official result and current claim guidance.
These figures describe the selected year only. They are calculated from the same results shown in the archive and do not imply that a frequently or infrequently drawn number is more likely in the next draw.
Calculating the selected year from the Thunderball archive.
Five main balls are recorded in every draw.
Calculated by comparing each draw with the immediately previous draw in the selected year.
The eligible main-number range depends on the selected year.
2010 spans two Thunderball formats. Main numbers 35–39 only became eligible from 12 May 2010, so they had fewer opportunities to appear that year. For that reason, the “least-drawn” panel excludes 35–39 when 2010 is selected.
These figures are calculated from the selected year in the archive. They make the expansion from a Saturday-only game to four draws a week easy to see.
Draw 1 produced main numbers 8, 26, 28, 31 and 32, with Thunderball 6. At launch, the five main balls came from a smaller 1–34 pool.
Thunderball began as a Saturday-only draw. Wednesday was added in October 2002, Friday in May 2010 and Tuesday in January 2018.
The archive is therefore useful for more than looking up old numbers: the number of draws per year changes substantially as the weekly schedule expands.
Numbers 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39 did not have the same opportunity to appear across the full archive because they were only added to the main-number pool in May 2010.
Draw 965 on Wednesday 12 May 2010 was the first draw under the enlarged 1–39 main-number matrix. The sorted winning main numbers were 11, 21, 24, 32 and 38, with Thunderball 10.
This is why an all-time “most common number” table can be misleading. Numbers 1–34 have more than a decade of extra draw history compared with 35–39.
Any future hot/cold or frequency analysis on MLL should therefore let the visitor compare the original era and the current 1–39 era separately.
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→The archive begins with the first Thunderball draw on Saturday 12 June 1999 and runs through to the latest completed draw available to MLL.
The first draw produced 8, 26, 28, 31 and 32, with Thunderball 6.
The original game used five main numbers from 1–34. The main pool increased to 1–39 from the draw on Wednesday 12 May 2010.
Yes. Enter a number in the search box to find rows in the selected year containing that value. You can also search by date, month wording or draw number.
Yes. You can show all draw days or restrict the selected year to Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday. Older years naturally contain fewer draw days because Thunderball’s weekly schedule expanded over time.
No. Historical results describe previous draws. They do not change the probability of any valid combination in a future independent draw.
Numbers 35–39 only entered the main-number pool in May 2010, so they have less historical exposure than numbers 1–34. Comparing the two eras separately avoids treating that structural difference as a number trend.
Use MLL’s Thunderball winners page for the latest winner counts and full prize distribution, or the results page for the latest winning numbers and draw status.
Historical baseline compiled from published Thunderball draw records and cross-checked against public result archives. Current game rules and ticket validation should always be checked with The National Lottery. Additional historical cross-check: Thunderball year archive.