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UK National Lottery Thunderball #26
Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm GMT on Saturday 4th December 1999:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
5+T/ball £250,000 1 £250,000 11.7%
5 £5,000 27 £135,000 6.3%
4+T/ball £250 97 £24,250 1.1%
4 £100 3,267 £326,700 15.3%
3+T/ball £20 2,885 £57,700 2.7%
3 £10 70,401 £704,010 32.9%
2+T/ball £10 24,532 £245,320 11.4%
1+T/ball £5 79,602 £398,010 18.6%
Totals 180,812 £2,140,990 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Ticket sales 2.1% fall £4,231,828
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 03 6 1 7 6 23 6
2nd 11 3 1 4 2 6 2
3rd 26 5 0 5 9 Never 9
4th 22 6 0 6 1 Never 1
5th 16 6 0 6 1 Never 1
T/ball 01 4 2 6 2 5 2
Total 79 30 4 34 21 112 21
Avg. 13.2 5.0 0.7 5.7 3.5 18.7 3.5
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 1 machine
- The average prize was £11.84.
One in every 23.4 tickets won a prize (=4.27% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included no wins.
- 8 of the 34 main numbers are now actually tied on six
appearances each !
- The seventh winning number
appearance of
the number 3 has allowed it to join the
number 12 at the top of the winning number
frequency table.
- One ticket combination
has now won 8 prizes in the 26 Thunderball lotteries to date.
- This draw had the highest number of 5-match
winners ever, but also
the lowest ever number of 2+Thunderball and 1+Thunderball winners.
- This was the first time that four consecutive Thunderball
draws had at least one jackpot winner.
- Ticket sales fell for a record fifth
consecutive week to their lowest level ever.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 1st June 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #27 (Saturday 11th December 1999) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #25 (Saturday 27th November 1999) [1 jackpot winner]
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