UK National Lottery Thunderball #131

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 8th December 2001:

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       4.2%
4+T/ball          £250          92       £23,000       1.4%
4                 £100       1,601      £160,100       9.7%
3+T/ball           £20       2,950       £59,000       3.6%
3                  £10      57,385      £573,850      34.8%
2+T/ball           £10      28,481      £284,810      17.3%
1+T/ball            £5      95,498      £477,490      29.0%
Totals                     186,021    £1,648,250     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.2% fall    £4,649,662   

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       13        20       9       29       8       13        8 
2nd       30        16       0       16       1     Never       1 
3rd       16        25       0       25       2     Never       2 
4th       15        13       0       13      30     Never      30 
5th       18        25       0       25      16     Never      16 
T/ball    01        18      12       30       1        1        1 
Total     93       117      21      138      58      538       58
Avg.      15.5      19.5     3.5     23.0     9.7     89.7      9.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.86. One in every 25.0 tickets won a prize (=4.00% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 11 wins totalling £75.
• The first row of the playslip has become the first to have seen 200 winning numbers to date.
• The 25th appearances of the numbers 16 and 18 brought them to within five of the main number frequency table leader (the number 25).
• The number 15 pulled itself three clear from the basement (the number 34) of the main and winning number frequency tables after its 13th appearance.
• The number 1 became only the fourth to have appeared in two consecutive draws as a Thunderball.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 6th June 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #132 (Saturday 15th December 2001) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #130 (Saturday 1st December 2001) [No jackpot winners]

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