UK National Lottery Thunderball #42

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 25th 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      11.0%
5               £5,000          12       £60,000       2.6%
4+T/ball          £250         163       £40,750       1.8%
4                 £100       1,680      £168,000       7.4%
3+T/ball           £20       4,715       £94,300       4.1%
3                  £10      52,918      £529,180      23.3%
2+T/ball           £10      42,656      £426,560      18.7%
1+T/ball            £5     141,338      £706,690      31.1%
Totals                     243,483    £2,275,480     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.7% rise    £4,281,676   

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       21         6       0        6       1     Never       1 
2nd       23         4       0        4      14     Never      14 
3rd       26         9       0        9       1     Never       1 
4th       32         7       0        7      20     Never      20 
5th       15         5       0        5      10     Never      10 
T/ball    11         7       2        9       2       22        2 
Total    128        38       2       40      48      232       48
Avg.      21.3       6.3     0.3      6.7     8.0     38.7      8.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T5 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.35. One in every 17.6 tickets won a prize (=5.69% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included no wins.
• The fourth appearance of the winning number 23 has left the number 34 two adrift at the basement of the winning number frequency table.
• All Thunderball numbers have now LIMK(../Analysis/FrequencyOrder_bonly.html,appeared) at least twice since the Thunderball lottery began.
• 21, 26 has become only the second main number pair to have appeared four times to date.
• This was a record fifth consecutive Thunderball draw to have 3 odd and 2 even main numbers.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 21st September 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #43 (Saturday 1st April 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #41 (Saturday 18th March 2000) [No jackpot winners]

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