UK National Lottery Thunderball #38

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm GMT on Saturday 26th February 2000:

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       9.5%
5               £5,000          34      £170,000       6.5%
4+T/ball          £250         237       £59,250       2.3%
4                 £100       3,163      £316,300      12.0%
3+T/ball           £20       5,132      £102,640       3.9%
3                  £10      69,126      £691,260      26.3%
2+T/ball           £10      40,034      £400,340      15.2%
1+T/ball            £5     127,656      £638,280      24.3%
Totals                     245,383    £2,628,070     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.1% fall    £4,417,432   

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       11         5       1        6       2       18        2 
2nd       30         5       0        5      18     Never      18 
3rd       03         9       3       12       3        2        2 
4th       21         4       0        4      16     Never      16 
5th       26         7       0        7      10     Never      10 
T/ball    12         6       2        8      14       13       13 
Total    103        36       6       42      63      147       61
Avg.      17.2       6.0     1.0      7.0    10.5     24.5     10.2

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £10.71. One in every 18.0 tickets won a prize (=5.55% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
• The 12th appearance of the winning number 3 has given it a lead of two at the top of the winning number frequency table.
• The number 11 is now the only Thunderball number not to have appeared at least twice since the Thunderball lottery began.
• Nine main number triples have now appeared twice in the history of the Thunderball lottery.
• The main number 5 has now failed to appear for a record 20 consecutive draws.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 24th August 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #39 (Saturday 4th March 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #37 (Saturday 19th February 2000) [1 jackpot winner]

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