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UK National Lottery Thunderball #140
Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 9th February 2002:
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 18 £90,000 2.7%
4+T/ball £250 296 £74,000 2.3%
4 £100 2,431 £243,100 7.4%
3+T/ball £20 9,692 £193,840 5.9%
3 £10 76,332 £763,320 23.2%
2+T/ball £10 77,976 £779,760 23.7%
1+T/ball £5 229,233 £1,146,165 34.8%
Totals 395,978 £3,290,185 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Ticket sales 1.1% rise £4,876,497
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 10 19 10 29 1 11 1
2nd 25 33 0 33 3 Never 3
3rd 08 23 9 32 2 16 2
4th 05 18 12 30 1 3 1
5th 07 16 14 30 12 28 12
T/ball 07 16 14 30 12 28 12
Total 62 125 59 184 31 226 31
Avg. 10.3 20.8 9.8 30.7 5.2 37.7 5.2
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 1 machine
- The average prize was £ 8.31.
One in every 12.3 tickets won a prize (=8.12% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £65.
- The main number 25 stretched its lead to
five at the top of the main number frequency
table after its
33rd such appearance.
- The 14th appearance of the number 7
as a Thunderball has moved it to within one of the Thunderball
frequency
leader
(the number 4).
- Six main number pairs
have now appeared seven times in the 140 Thunderball lottery
draws to date.
- Ticket sales
rose for a record-equalling fifth consecutive week and hit
their highest level for 16 months.
- This draw had the highest number of 3+Thunderball,
2+Thunderball and total prize
winners ever, as well as the second
highest ever number of 1+Thunderball winners.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 8th August 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #141 (Saturday 16th February 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #139 (Saturday 2nd February 2002) [2 jackpot winners]
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