UK National Lottery Thunderball #144

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 9th March 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           6       £30,000       1.3%
4+T/ball          £250         135       £33,750       1.5%
4                 £100       2,232      £223,200       9.8%
3+T/ball           £20       4,625       £92,500       4.1%
3                  £10      72,000      £720,000      31.7%
2+T/ball           £10      43,653      £436,530      19.2%
1+T/ball            £5     147,264      £736,320      32.4%
Totals                     269,915    £2,272,300     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales            18.4% rise    £6,133,700   

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       03        18       8       26       1       11        1 
2nd       08        24       9       33       4       20        4 
3rd       32        18       0       18       9     Never       9 
4th       05        19      12       31       4        7        4 
5th       06        23       7       30       2       18        2 
T/ball    14        22       9       31       3        2        2 
Total     68       124      45      169      23      202       22
Avg.      11.3      20.7     7.5     28.2     3.8     33.7      3.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.42. One in every 22.7 tickets won a prize (=4.40% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £50.
• Ticket sales rose by almost £1 million in this draw to their second highest level ever (only beaten by the sales for the first Thunderball draw). This is all accounted for by a main draw promotion this week which gave away £1 million of Thunderball tickets.
• This was the first time that the number of prize winners in a particular tier was an exact multiple of 1,000 - in this case, it was the 72,000 winners of the 3-match prize.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 5th September 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #145 (Saturday 16th March 2002) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #143 (Saturday 2nd March 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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