UK National Lottery Thunderball #45

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 15th April 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           0            £0       0.0%
5               £5,000          14       £70,000       3.8%
4+T/ball          £250         147       £36,750       2.0%
4                 £100       1,903      £190,300      10.2%
3+T/ball           £20       4,008       £80,160       4.3%
3                  £10      53,632      £536,320      28.9%
2+T/ball           £10      35,367      £353,670      19.1%
1+T/ball            £5     117,587      £587,935      31.7%
Totals                     212,658    £1,855,135     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.3% fall    £4,150,146   

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       25        10       0       10       1     Never       1 
2nd       02         8       3       11       1        4        1 
3rd       33         9       0        9       5     Never       5 
4th       30         6       0        6       7     Never       7 
5th       14         8       3       11       4        1        1 
T/ball    12         6       3        9      21        7        7 
Total    116        47       9       56      39      147       22
Avg.      19.3       7.8     1.5      9.3     6.5     24.5      3.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.72. One in every 19.5 tickets won a prize (=5.12% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included one win of £5.
• The 10th main number appearance of the number 25 has put it joint top of that frequency table alongside the numbers 16 and 22.
• The main number pair 02, 25 is only the third such pair to have appeared four times since the Thunderball lottery began.
• The main numbers 2 and 25 are the fourth and fifth numbers to have appeared in three consecutive draws as one of the main five balls.
• This was only the second time that three winning numbers had also all appeared in the previous draw.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 12th October 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #46 (Saturday 22nd April 2000) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #44 (Saturday 8th April 2000) [No jackpot winners]

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