UK National Lottery Thunderball #61

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 5th August 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          24      £120,000       6.2%
4+T/ball          £250         140       £35,000       1.8%
4                 £100       2,623      £262,300      13.6%
3+T/ball           £20       3,482       £69,640       3.6%
3                  £10      69,522      £695,220      36.0%
2+T/ball           £10      29,107      £291,070      15.1%
1+T/ball            £5      91,566      £457,830      23.7%
Totals                     196,464    £1,931,060     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             1.4% rise    £4,886,521   

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       06         9       3       12       1       21        1 
2nd       15         7       0        7       6     Never       6 
3rd       19         7       0        7       2     Never       2 
4th       01         8       6       14      11        1        1 
5th       10         8       4       12       4        9        4 
T/ball    01         8       6       14      11        1        1 
Total     52        47      19       66      35      154       15
Avg.       8.7       7.8     3.2     11.0     5.8     25.7      2.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.83. One in every 24.9 tickets won a prize (=4.02% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £15.
• The sixth appearance of the number 1 as the Thunderball has narrowed the gap to the most common Thunderball (the number 5) to one. It also became only third Thunderball to appear in two consecutive draws.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 1st February 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #62 (Saturday 12th August 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #60 (Saturday 29th July 2000) [1 jackpot winner]

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