UK National Lottery Thunderball #145

Winning numbers drawn at 8.28pm GMT on Saturday 16th 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           2      £500,000      17.5%
5               £5,000          17       £85,000       3.0%
4+T/ball          £250         160       £40,000       1.4%
4                 £100       3,417      £341,700      12.0%
3+T/ball           £20       4,423       £88,460       3.1%
3                  £10      88,752      £887,520      31.1%
2+T/ball           £10      35,725      £357,250      12.5%
1+T/ball            £5     110,831      £554,155      19.4%
Totals                     243,327    £2,854,085     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales            15.6% fall    £5,176,315   

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        22      10       32      12        4        4 
2nd       19        22       0       22       2     Never       2 
3rd       07        17      14       31       5        5        5 
4th       09        26      13       39       7        2        2 
5th       28        24       0       24      10     Never      10 
T/ball    01        20      13       33       2       14        2 
Total     77       131      50      181      38      315       25
Avg.      12.8      21.8     8.3     30.2     6.3     52.5      4.2

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T7 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £11.73. One in every 21.3 tickets won a prize (=4.70% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £55.
• The number 9 has joined the number 4 at the top of the winning number frequency table after its 39th such appearance.
• The main number pair 09, 28 has become the first such pair to have appeared eight times to date.
• This draw had the second highest number of 3-match winners ever.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 12th September 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #146 (Saturday 23rd March 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #144 (Saturday 9th March 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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