National Lottery Thunderball Results: Saturday Draw Delivers £500,000 Prize

The thunderball results on Saturday, May 2 featured a £500,000 prize in the National Lottery draw at 8.15pm. That came just after the Lotto draw at 8pm, which carried a £3.9m jackpot that had to be won.

Saturday at 8.15pm

The Thunderball draw gave players a half-million-pound prize in the weekend’s second National Lottery chance to win big. For anyone holding a ticket, the key check is the numbers: 3, 4, 6, 12, 29 and 40 were the winning Lotto numbers listed for the night.

Lotto cost £2 per play, and the game runs every Saturday and Wednesday at 8pm. That weekly schedule is part of why the Saturday draw matters: it closes out one of the two regular draws before the next midweek chance arrives.

£3.9m Lotto draw

The £3.9m jackpot sat above the Thunderball prize on the same night, but the two draws served different players and different stakes. The Saturday Lotto event also fit into a wider prize pool that raises around £30m each week for UK good causes, which is the business backdrop behind the numbers on the slip.

For players checking their tickets after the 8.15pm Thunderball draw, the immediate task is simple: match the numbers against the results and see whether the £500,000 prize changes hands. In a night with two draws and one half-million-pound Thunderball prize, the value was in the timing as much as the total.