Thunderball Draw on May 14, 2025: Numbers, Prizes, and What Happened
The midweek Thunderball draw always brings a bit of suspense, but Wednesday, May 14, 2025, didn’t make anyone an overnight millionaire. Still, it sent out a wave of wins—some small, some life-brightening—across the UK and Isle of Man. For draw number 3,695, the numbers pulled from the Excalibur 4 machine were 4, 7, 27, 32, and 37. The all-important Thunderball? That was a 10.
No tickets matched all five numbers plus the Thunderball, so the headline £500,000 prize stayed put. You could almost hear the collective groan from hopefuls clutching their slips.
Winners, Prize Breakdown, and Odds at Play
But let’s not pretend everyone walked away empty-handed. There were 93,462 winners—yes, that’s not a typo—carving up a prize pot worth £541,461. Among them, just one player hit five main numbers (missing only the Thunderball), nabbing £5,000. For 20 others, four main numbers and the Thunderball was good for £250 each. In the next bracket, 340 folks took home £100 for four matching numbers.
Payouts then filtered down through smaller prizes—think dozens, then thousands, each with a little windfall: from £20 for matching three numbers and the Thunderball, down to a few quid if luck only got you the Thunderball alongside a sole matcher. The lowest prize for matching nothing but the Thunderball still added up to £3, not exactly windfall territory but enough to buy your next ticket and dream again.
What’s the secret sauce here? The rules are always the same. You’ve got to be over 18, based in the UK or Isle of Man, and fast enough to snag a ticket before cut-off. The Excalibur 4 machine, paired with ball set 6 for this draw, handled the all-important job of keeping things random, fair, and unrigged.
Thunderball is known for its better odds on smaller prizes, even if Thunderball’s biggest jackpot is capped at half a million pounds. For a dedicated crowd, the weekly ritual is less about hitting it big than the buzz of possibility and those moments of “what if?”