UK National Lottery Thunderball #79

Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm GMT on Saturday 9th December 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           2      £500,000      18.5%
5               £5,000          12       £60,000       2.2%
4+T/ball          £250         170       £42,500       1.6%
4                 £100       1,987      £198,700       7.4%
3+T/ball           £20       5,331      £106,620       3.9%
3                  £10      58,772      £587,720      21.8%
2+T/ball           £10      46,744      £467,440      17.3%
1+T/ball            £5     147,536      £737,680      27.3%
Totals                     260,554    £2,700,660     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             1.2% fall    £4,424,415   

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        12       0       12       4     Never       4 
2nd       09        14       6       20       1        3        1 
3rd       16        15       0       15       2     Never       2 
4th       28        12       0       12       1     Never       1 
5th       19        11       0       11       1     Never       1 
T/ball    04        13       8       21       8        1        1 
Total     97        77      14       91      17      320       10
Avg.      16.2      12.8     2.3     15.2     2.8     53.3      1.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £10.37. One in every 17.0 tickets won a prize (=5.89% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £60.
• The 21st appearance of the winning number 4 has made it the outright leader of the winning number frequency table.
• The number 4 has become only the third number to appear in two consecutive draws as a Thunderball.
• This was the first time that 3 of the 5 main numbers had appeared in the previous draw and, even more remarkably, 4 of the 6 winning numbers had also appeared in the previous draw.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 7th June 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #80 (Saturday 16th December 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #78 (Saturday 2nd December 2000) [No jackpot winners]

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