UK National Lottery Thunderball #46

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 22nd 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           1      £250,000      12.4%
5               £5,000           2       £10,000       0.5%
4+T/ball          £250         114       £28,500       1.4%
4                 £100       1,379      £137,900       6.8%
3+T/ball           £20       3,950       £79,000       3.9%
3                  £10      47,824      £478,240      23.6%
2+T/ball           £10      38,609      £386,090      19.1%
1+T/ball            £5     130,733      £653,665      32.3%
Totals                     222,612    £2,023,395     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             1.2% fall    £4,100,222   

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       05         5       5       10       2        9        2 
2nd       16        11       0       11       9     Never       9 
3rd       04         7       3       10       6       11        6 
4th       29         7       0        7       9     Never       9 
5th       02         9       3       12       1        5        1 
T/ball    08         7       3       10      11       30       11 
Total     64        46      14       60      38      147       38
Avg.      10.7       7.7     2.3     10.0     6.3     24.5      6.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.09. One in every 18.4 tickets won a prize (=5.43% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £15.
• The number 16 is now the outright leader of the main number frequency table after its 11th such appearance.
• It's a different story in the winning number frequency table though, where the number 2 has joined the number 3 at the top on 12 appearances each.
• The number 2 has become the first number ever to appear in four consecutive Thunderball draws.
• There were only two 4+Thunderball winners in this draw - three less than in any other previous Thunderball draw.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 19th October 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #47 (Saturday 29th April 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #45 (Saturday 15th April 2000) [No jackpot winners]

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