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UK Thunderball Complete Odds
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The purpose of this page is to provide Thunderball Lottery players with the supplemental information that is not readily available on the sponsored lottery site.
| Thunderball Highlights | Mini | 5.5% | 94.5% | 18.19 | £0.54 | £0.2567 | £9.84 |
| Class | Winners | Losers | Overall Odds | Overall Return | Return Sensitivity | Payout per £ |
We believe this is important because most lotteries only provide players with minimal amount of information: the odds of each winning combination occuring; the overall probability of having a winning ticket; the price of each ticket; the game format; the total number of combinations; and a few other items.
However, this page fills in the missing blanks. Included here are the complete odds and probibilities of every winning and losing occurring. It provides you with a comparison of winners to losers, the monies collected, the monies distributed back to players, and more.
Lottery Power Picks has taken every effort to ensure that this summary information is correct by reading and bookmarking all informtion provided by the organizing lottery body. But, in certain instances, clearly defined rules are not written. In those instances, we made assumptions that are linguistically consistant with the rules. Should any information be incorrect, please inform us so that we may correct it. We hope you find this information useful in understanding the lottery you play.
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About The Thunderball Lottery is a UK mini lottery. It is managed by the National Lottery. Format Thunderball requires a player to make 2 choices: (1) Pick 5 numbers out of a set of 34 white balls; and (2) Pick 1 Thunderball from a set of 14 balls. If the player picks the same numbers as those that are drawn in the next drawing, the player wins the Jackpot prize. Smaller prizes are awarded for other combinations. Class Thunderball is a Mini Lottery. We classify it as such because its Jackpot Parity is approximately £2 million, which is less than £10 milllion Prizes The Thunderball jackpot prize is a constant £250,000; and, all other cash prizes are predefined as well. These are summarized in the table below. Note that Thunderball has no jackpot rollover, meaning that if no one wins the jackpot, it is simply not distributed back to the players. However, this is one of the few lotteries where multiple winners can each win and receive the jackpot prize. Combinations In the Thunderball lottery, there are a total of 3,895,584 combinations. Winners Of these, there are 214,179 winning combinations. This represents 5.50% of the combinations. The overall odds of having a winning combination is 18.19 to 1 (the lower the better). Losers There are 3,681,405 losing Thunderball combinations. This is 94.50% of the combinations. The overall odds of having a losing combination is 1.06 to 1 (the higher the better; because as this number gets closer to 1, nearly every ticket is a loser. Price Each Thunderball lottery ticket costs £1.0 Money Raised
Assuming all tickets are sold and there are no duplicates, a total of £3,895,584 will be raised.
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Prize Pool Of this, £2,107,925 will be allocated to the prize pool to be paid back to the players. Average Winning Ticket Payout On the average, each winning ticket will pay £9.84 to the players. Since a ticket costs £1, the normalized payout per £ spent is also £9.84 Income Returned to Players Based on this information, £0.54 of each pound raised will be returned to the players. Return Sensitivity If the Thunderball Jackpot changes by £1.0 million, the above Income Returned to Players will change by £0.2567 (up or down). Parity In order for Thunderball to return £1.00 for each pound raised, the Jackpot must be equal to £2,037,659.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The following Table summarizes the odds, occurances, probability, number of winning combinations, percent of prize pool, prize payout per combination, and the total cash payout of the combination pool.
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