UK National Lottery Thunderball #40

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm GMT on Saturday 11th March 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      10.3%
5               £5,000          12       £60,000       2.5%
4+T/ball          £250         187       £46,750       1.9%
4                 £100       2,069      £206,900       8.6%
3+T/ball           £20       5,011      £100,220       4.1%
3                  £10      59,145      £591,450      24.4%
2+T/ball           £10      44,658      £446,580      18.5%
1+T/ball            £5     143,871      £719,355      29.7%
Totals                     254,954    £2,421,255     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             1.2% fall    £4,321,461   

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         7       1        8       1       20        1 
2nd       14         6       2        8       5       10        5 
3rd       04         6       3        9       1        5        1 
4th       33         8       0        8       4     Never       4 
5th       27         5       0        5       8     Never       8 
T/ball    06         5       3        8       1       29        1 
Total     95        37       9       46      20      144       20
Avg.      15.8       6.2     1.5      7.7     3.3     24.0      3.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.50. One in every 16.9 tickets won a prize (=5.90% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included one win of £5.
• The main number 11 became only the third such number to have appeared in three consecutive draws. It was also the 6th winning number to appear in three consecutive draws.
• This draw marked the first time that three winning numbers (4, 6 and 11) had also appeared in the previous draw.
• Over £100 million of prizes have now been awarded by the 40 Thunderball lotteries to date.
• Amusingly, Alan Dedicoat read out the Thunderball as number 9 and the BBC 1 computer graphic for the Thunderball was also shown as the number 9. Whilst Alan Dedicoat managed to correct his mistake vocally and stated that it should be the number 6, the BBC 1 computer graphic wasn't similarly corrected there and then.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 7th September 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #41 (Saturday 18th March 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #39 (Saturday 4th March 2000) [No jackpot winners]

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